---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1145"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1145 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T22:22:16+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-02T21:30:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4323bfbe-def1-4b0b-b564-a4cead7afd6e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7f407826b45d49ab37f992fa128226dd52d63e248853a4ea6add655ff2d2b473"
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 1145 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS STATE LIBRARY 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 1145** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1145.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T22:22:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T16:24:12+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`
- **2021-01-26T17:24:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-27T20:02:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-27T20:02:25+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-28T00:10:13+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-28T00:10:17+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-01-28T20:31:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T20:31:49+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-28T20:31:51+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:45:27+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:45:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-01-29T19:18:46+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-02T21:30:29+00:00** Notification that HB1145 is now Act 44 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4323bfbe-def1-4b0b-b564-a4cead7afd6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).