---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE LIMIT ON SCHOOL CHOICE TRANSFERS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE LIMIT ON SCHOOL CHOICE TRANSFERS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2018S2"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Arkansas SB 3 (2018S2)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-12"
last_action: "2018-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e72ed3db-966b-4120-9221-6f615c56ede5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7b379a7b606e10b825afb0d77007c27c36e77d8571f11459a96d7da8c362e1e5"
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 3 (2018S2) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE LIMIT ON SCHOOL CHOICE TRANSFERS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 3** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2018S2/Public/Searchable/SB3.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-12** Filed `introduction`
- **2018-03-13** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-03-14** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2018-03-14** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2018-03-14** 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`
- **2018-03-14** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-15** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-03-15** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2018-03-15** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2018-03-15** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2018-03-15** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2018-03-15** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-20** Notification that SB3 is now Act 14 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e72ed3db-966b-4120-9221-6f615c56ede5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).