republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/sb-222.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	SB 222	Arkansas SB 222 (2019)	bill		enacted	E. Cheatham	2	20	2	2019-01-31	2019-03-05	openstates	ocd-bill/25a9ee18-1310-4f6d-bdd3-91851ea1018d	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	89ce3393217a4575e2470547fc20a2d1c415dde1f9386c2a1b9617dad9b06703	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 222 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THE ARKANSAS TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 222 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 84–1 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• E. Cheatham — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-01-31 Filed introduction
• 2019-01-31 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-02-14 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2019-02-14 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-02-14 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-14 Re-referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT referral-committee
• 2019-02-25 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-26 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-26 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2019-02-26 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2019-02-26 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2019-02-26 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-02-28 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-28 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2019-02-28 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2019-02-28 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2019-02-28 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2019-03-04 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2019-03-04 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2019-03-05 Notification that SB222 is now Act 297 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25a9ee18-1310-4f6d-bdd3-91851ea1018d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).