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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION REAPPROPRIATION."
+description: "AN ACT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION REAPPROPRIATION."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 223"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 223 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-08T18:03:38+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-14T18:19:33+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98434550-df34-47e6-99b1-34e735076637"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "e0509b23fab2d273503b6e7e32a63d5764063f8f8d84e88175837e3178758ec0"
+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 223 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION REAPPROPRIATION.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 221** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=221.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **SB 223** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB223.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–1** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-08T18:03:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-08T19:29:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-21T19:33:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-23T20:06:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23T20:06:58+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-02-23T20:06:59+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-02-23T20:38:05+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-02-23T21:53:42+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-02-28T20:05:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-28T20:05:41+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-02-28T20:06:41+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-02-28T21:44:28+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-02-28T21:44:35+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-01T14:43:17+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-03-01T14:43:27+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-14T18:19:33+00:00** Notification that SB223 is now Act 221 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98434550-df34-47e6-99b1-34e735076637`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+