---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2020F"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Arkansas SB 85 (2020F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-03"
last_action: "2020-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d80351ee-f1a8-43d1-b0d3-6cad9e186e32"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ac082f747f69ccff9608e4ae232ac60f20c5893da79d736624ca76d2f3f1bd35"
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 85 (2020F) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 85** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2020F/Public/Searchable/SB85.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-04-03** Filed `introduction`
- **2020-04-08** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-04-15** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-04-15** Rules suspended.
- **2020-04-15** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-04-15** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2020-04-15** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2020-04-15** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2020-04-15** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-04-16** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2020-04-16** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2020-04-16** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-04-16** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2020-04-16** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2020-04-16** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2020-04-16** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2020-04-16** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2020-04-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2020-04-24** Notification that SB85 is now Act 181 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d80351ee-f1a8-43d1-b0d3-6cad9e186e32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).