---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CONCURRENT CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CONCURRENT CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 343"
citation: "Arkansas SB 343 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Sturch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00089594-136f-46e6-bb37-e1a130a0fb76"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b6ab22d2e214874b5654313f7dd9ca840be03d3cfa43d3588d28b79ccd5a7059"
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 343 (2019) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CONCURRENT CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP.

## 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=SB343-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 343** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB343.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Sturch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-20** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-20** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-20** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2019-02-26** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-26** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-28** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-28** 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`
- **2019-03-07** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-11** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-11** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-12** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-13** Notification that SB343 is now Act 456 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00089594-136f-46e6-bb37-e1a130a0fb76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).