republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2022f/sb-85.md

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Bill	TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ELIGIBLE INACTIVE RETIREE"; TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY OF RETIREES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ELIGIBLE INACTIVE RETIREE"; TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY OF RETIREES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2022F	SB 85	Arkansas SB 85 (2022F)	bill		enacted	Evans Irvin	2	17	2	2022-02-15T21:33:01+00:00	2022-03-02T18:53:39+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2378c6ec-629c-4ed9-8a2d-365d8de29946	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	96622a0ba328c1e1b25676832d29aae37569a3e471c984226423fe7ad39bcb1d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 85 (2022F) — TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF "ELIGIBLE INACTIVE RETIREE"; TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY OF RETIREES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 107 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 85 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)
• Irvin — primary (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bragg — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Ennett — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Godfrey — cosponsor (person)
• Hawks — cosponsor (person)
• Hickey — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• Jett — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
• L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
• Love — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McCullough — cosponsor (person)
• Nicks — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-15T21:33:01+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2022-02-15T22:15:21+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-16T20:42:07+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-02-17T17:17:47+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-17T17:17:54+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2022-02-17T17:18:03+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2022-02-17T17:42:48+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2022-02-17T17:58:28+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-02-22T21:02:32+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2022-02-23T19:26:03+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-23T19:26:09+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2022-02-23T19:26:18+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2022-02-28T18:08:24+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2022-02-28T18:08:36+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2022-02-28T18:45:51+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2022-02-28T18:45:55+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2022-03-02T18:53:39+00:00 Notification that SB85 is now Act 107 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2378c6ec-629c-4ed9-8a2d-365d8de29946. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).