All Roll Calls
Yes: 133 • No: 0
ArkansasHB12072025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFY LANGUAGE FOR THE PROPER ADMINISTRATION OF BENEFITS UNDER THE STATE POLICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
Sponsored By: Ben Gilmore (Republican), Les Warren (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
More survivor benefits for police families
Families of uniformed Arkansas State Police employees killed in the line of duty gain broader access to survivor benefits. Benefits are available even without the officer's retirement-system membership, completed probation, or enough service. A surviving spouse must apply to the retirement board and prove the required facts. Children must be unmarried and under 18, or under 23 while enrolled in higher education—up from under 22. The spouse's benefit continues after children age out, but ends when the spouse remarries or dies.
Police pensions can cover unpaid obligations
Arkansas courts can redirect a state police retiree's monthly pension when the retiree willfully violates a minor-child support order. The money goes into the court's registry, and the court decides how it is handled. Employers can also deduct money from annuity payments to recover claims involving a member's, retiree's, or beneficiary's embezzlement or fraud. These exceptions can reduce pension money available to affected households; they do not apply automatically to all retirees.
Tier Two police pension adjustment changes
The law removes Tier Two pension adjustment provisions tied to the Consumer Price Index, a measure of inflation. This includes a cap based on the benefit payable the prior July 1 and an inflation formula. Removing the cap lifts that limit, but the repeal also removes the related inflation-based adjustment pathway. The law states no replacement formula or dollar change for an individual pension.
Clearer pension rules for Tier One
Retiring Tier 1 noncontributory members of Arkansas's State Police Retirement System receive pensions under Arkansas Code § 24-6-227. This replaces the reference to § 24-6-216. The change identifies the governing pension formula without stating a dollar increase or changing retirement eligibility.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Ben Gilmore
Republican • Senate
Les Warren
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/17/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, February 17, 2025 2:54:30 PM
Yes: 34 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, February 12, 2025 2:46:36 PM
Yes: 99 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1207 is now Act 127
2/20/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
2/18/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
2/17/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
2/17/2025HouseReturned to the House as passed.
2/17/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
2/17/2025SenateRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar.
2/12/2025SenateReceived from the House.
2/12/2025SenateRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
2/12/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
2/11/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT
1/23/2025HouseFiled
1/23/2025House
Bill Text
HB1207 - Introduced
1/23/2025
Act Version
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