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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE LEARNS ACT; TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE TWELVE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO CREATE THE LEARNS ACT; TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE TWELVE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 294"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 294 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Brooks"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-02-20T22:55:23+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-14T18:23:29+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b918e5b-a06e-4729-8cc9-0c4eaf4a227a"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "46500f16e5a2adbe991c8d53ca035ec438d531b4db839fd460d3f3a4b794590a"
+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 294 (2023) — TO CREATE THE LEARNS ACT; TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE TWELVE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 237** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=237.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB294-H1.pdf)
+3. **SB 294** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB294.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **25–7** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **78–21** (pass) · lower
+- Motion by Rep. Pilkington for immediate consideration passed — **63–28** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **26–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Davis — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Achor — cosponsor (person)
+- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Burkes — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Dees — cosponsor (person)
+- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
+- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
+- Furman — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
+- John Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Painter — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Unger — cosponsor (person)
+- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Womack — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-20T22:55:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-20T23:00:53+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-22T23:13:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-23T19:50:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23T19:50:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-02-23T19:50:55+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-02-23T20:21:46+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-02-23T21:58:10+00:00** 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`
+- **2023-02-27T14:34:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-02-27T14:34:41+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-27T19:04:55+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-01T21:58:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-02T20:53:12+00:00** Motion by Rep. Pilkington for immediate consideration passed
+- **2023-03-02T20:53:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-02T20:53:51+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-02T20:56:16+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2023-03-02T21:53:16+00:00** Returned From the House as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2023-03-02T21:53:25+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-06T22:55:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-07T21:39:33+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-07T21:39:39+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2023-03-07T21:39:49+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-03-07T21:41:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-07T21:41:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-07T21:42:11+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-07T21:43:37+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-03-07T21:44:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-14T18:23:29+00:00** Notification that SB294 is now Act 237 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b918e5b-a06e-4729-8cc9-0c4eaf4a227a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+