republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-78.md

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Bill	TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN THE EVENT THAT A JUDGE OR JUSTICE HAS FORFEITED HIS OR HER RIGHTS TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS FROM THE SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN THE EVENT THAT A JUDGE OR JUSTICE HAS FORFEITED HIS OR HER RIGHTS TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS FROM THE SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 78	Arkansas SB 78 (2023)	bill		enacted	Dalby Hickey	2	16	2	2023-01-19T16:01:39+00:00	2023-02-27T22:52:07+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/006e6035-33d6-4bf6-8f94-88375552f23d	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	e216d22cadbeafa80e9f657964963cb557a4d5176127a7147d4541118f93323e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 78 (2023) — TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS JUDICIAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN THE EVENT THAT A JUDGE OR JUSTICE HAS FORFEITED HIS OR HER RIGHTS TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS FROM THE SYSTEM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 134 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 78 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dalby — primary (person)
• Hickey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19T16:01:39+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-19T16:13:08+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-20T19:27:25+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-21T19:44:03+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-21T19:44:09+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-21T19:44:17+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-21T20:26:29+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-21T22:37:05+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-02-22T20:40:02+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-22T20:40:04+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-22T20:40:09+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-02-22T22:58:42+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-02-22T22:58:49+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-02-23T14:48:49+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-02-23T14:48:56+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-02-27T22:52:07+00:00 Notification that SB78 is now Act 134 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/006e6035-33d6-4bf6-8f94-88375552f23d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).