---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Arkansas SB 156 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32f8eda5-cd55-40ae-83d9-8b4319c03702"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5b6b116659ef5263d60035460f0c5d731995758e0599a68801449e56b7ccaecb"
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 156 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB156-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 156** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB156.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-04** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-04** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2019-02-05** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-05** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-07** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-07** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-11** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-11** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-11** 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`
- **2019-02-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-14** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-14** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-02-18** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-02-18** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-20** Notification that SB156 is now Act 184 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32f8eda5-cd55-40ae-83d9-8b4319c03702`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).