TO ALLOW THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO COLLECT AMOUNTS OF OVERPAYMENTS FOR DEBTS OWED TO A STATE SUPPORTED RETIREMENT SYSTEM ADMINISTERED BY THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

This bill allows Arkansas' public retirement system (APERS) to recover overpaid benefits from retirees who owe money to the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System or State Police Retirement System. It amends state law to explicitly include these two retirement systems as entities from which APERS can collect overpayments. The change directly affects retirees who received excess payments and the retirement systems themselves by expanding APERS' existing authority to recover such debts. This is a technical adjustment to streamline benefit recovery, not a new policy or funding change.