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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Arkansas SB 78 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dalby", "Hickey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-19T16:01:39+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-27T22:52:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/006e6035-33d6-4bf6-8f94-88375552f23d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e216d22cadbeafa80e9f657964963cb557a4d5176127a7147d4541118f93323e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=134.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 78** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB78.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed. — **331** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **950** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/006e6035-33d6-4bf6-8f94-88375552f23d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).