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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT."
+description: "TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 156"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 156 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-02-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32f8eda5-cd55-40ae-83d9-8b4319c03702"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "5b6b116659ef5263d60035460f0c5d731995758e0599a68801449e56b7ccaecb"
+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 156 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB156-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 156** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB156.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **27–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-01-23** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-04** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2019-02-04** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2019-02-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-04** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-05** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
+- **2019-02-05** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2019-02-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-05** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-07** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-02-07** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2019-02-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-11** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-11** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-02-11** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-02-11** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-14** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-02-14** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2019-02-14** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-02-18** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-02-18** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-02-20** Notification that SB156 is now Act 184 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32f8eda5-cd55-40ae-83d9-8b4319c03702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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