---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 2000; TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY CENTURY TRUST FUND TO THE LONG TERM RESERVE FUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 2000; TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY CENTURY TRUST FUND TO THE LONG TERM RESERVE FUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2017S1"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "Arkansas SB 5 (2017S1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Hendren"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-01"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79781be0-f6b7-41b2-8332-8f04b7b79a17"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/dfadooas/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ea05390ac46fae45f2428feeabb68d7ec04da40caeff1314836ddeb708b3f896"
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 5 (2017S1) — TO AMEND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 2000; TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM THE ARKANSAS HEALTHY CENTURY TRUST FUND TO THE LONG TERM RESERVE FUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB 5** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2017S1/Public/SB5.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **70–24** (pass) · legislature
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–7** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- J. Hendren — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-05-01** Filed `introduction`
- **2017-05-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Joint Budget Committee `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-02** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-02** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2017-05-02** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2017-05-02** Rules suspended.
- **2017-05-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-02** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2017-05-02** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2017-05-02** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2017-05-02** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2017-05-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-03** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2017-05-03** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2017-05-03** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2017-05-03** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2017-05-03** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2017-05-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-04** Notification that SB5 is now Act 7 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79781be0-f6b7-41b2-8332-8f04b7b79a17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).