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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM FUND."
+description: "TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM FUND."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 416"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 416 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Evans"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-13T22:31:47+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T20:47:10+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d61a5d20-891b-4675-b0b4-bf0645cb1905"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "423465f3f50e937a679599960b4fa0805394b65bf0427992a7d0c53787798fbb"
+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 416 (2023) — TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM FUND.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 640** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=640.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB416-S1.pdf)
+3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB416-S2.pdf)
+4. **SB 416** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB416.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C. Tucker — primary (person)
+- Evans — primary (person)
+- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-13T22:31:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-13T22:35:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-15T18:29:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-15T20:09:51+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-03-15T20:09:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-15T20:10:07+00:00** Amendment # 1 & 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-03-15T23:45:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-16T18:29:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-16T18:29:23+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-03-16T20:18:31+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-03-16T21:52:20+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`
+- **2023-04-04T18:02:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-05T23:50:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-05T23:51:51+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T03:19:55+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T03:20:00+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-06T14:52:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-04-06T14:52:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-04-11T20:47:10+00:00** Notification that SB416 is now Act 640 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d61a5d20-891b-4675-b0b4-bf0645cb1905`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+