republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1247.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING BENEFITS PAID TO SURVIVORS AND BENEFICIARIES AFTER THE DEATH OF MEMBERS AND RETIRANTS OF THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING BENEFITS PAID TO SURVIVORS AND BENEFICIARIES AFTER THE DEATH OF MEMBERS AND RETIRANTS OF THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1247	Arkansas HB 1247 (2023)	bill		enacted	Vaught	3	15	2	2023-01-25T18:35:21+00:00	2023-03-10T19:51:03+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/38ac4026-05cd-40c2-8e7d-c0467d3aafd5	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	f655e95111b50c46922f050c1d392202590269b5522d5708f586a3b1b5116ae3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1247 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING BENEFITS PAID TO SURVIVORS AND BENEFICIARIES AFTER THE DEATH OF MEMBERS AND RETIRANTS OF THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Version chain

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

1. Act 240 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1247 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-25T18:35:21+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-25T20:07:07+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
• 2023-02-22T14:35:06+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-22T14:35:09+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-22T17:00:30+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-27T16:22:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-28T19:54:58+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-28T21:50:29+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-02-28T21:50:34+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-06T20:27:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-06T20:27:08+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-03-06T22:02:08+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-06T22:02:12+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-03-07T13:53:20+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-03-10T19:51:03+00:00 Notification that HB1247 is now Act 240 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38ac4026-05cd-40c2-8e7d-c0467d3aafd5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).