---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1144"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1144 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T22:21:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-10T16:42:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a18bf87-7d4c-4d53-9619-fc4ec20edf10"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "74c390734342c229118117c192a922baa9d90175f4acbdb192f3f414b8347e41"
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 HB 1144 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1144** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1144.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T22:21:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T16:23:51+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-03T19:00:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04T20:27:37+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-02-04T20:27:38+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-02-04T20:27:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-04T20:27:40+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-04T23:09:13+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-04T23:09:20+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-08T20:52:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-08T20:52:14+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-08T20:52:16+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-02-08T22:34:27+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-08T22:34:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-09T16:12:58+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-10T16:42:57+00:00** Notification that HB1144 is now Act 109 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a18bf87-7d4c-4d53-9619-fc4ec20edf10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).