republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1246.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF BENEFITS PAID TO SURVIVORS OF DECEASED MEMBERS, FORMER MEMBERS, AND RETIRANTS UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF BENEFITS PAID TO SURVIVORS OF DECEASED MEMBERS, FORMER MEMBERS, AND RETIRANTS UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1246	Arkansas HB 1246 (2023)	bill		enacted	Vaught	3	15	2	2023-01-25T18:34:38+00:00	2023-03-13T12:43:27+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1700a4b8-4697-4db0-8c80-9dadda733264	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	6ea3465f397e34630422fd50d34f6cf7b20783ef6bfe179ad219869232d98090	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1246 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF BENEFITS PAID TO SURVIVORS OF DECEASED MEMBERS, FORMER MEMBERS, AND RETIRANTS UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Version chain

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

1. Act 262 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1246 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vaught — primary (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-25T18:34:38+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-25T20:06:37+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T14:34:58+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-22T14:35:00+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-22T17:00:21+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-27T16:21:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-28T19:54:19+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-28T21:50:03+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-02-28T21:50:09+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-08T20:00:06+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-08T20:00:16+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-03-08T21:00:10+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-08T21:00:13+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-03-08T21:37:46+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-03-13T12:43:27+00:00 Notification that HB1246 is now Act 262 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1700a4b8-4697-4db0-8c80-9dadda733264. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).