---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW THE COMMISSIONER OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TO ROUND THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE BETWEEN THE PURCHASE PRICE OF A COMMODITY AND THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS TO THE NEAREST ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS."
description: "TO ALLOW THE COMMISSIONER OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TO ROUND THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE BETWEEN THE PURCHASE PRICE OF A COMMODITY AND THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS TO THE NEAREST ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1194"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1194 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Eads", "Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14T20:36:45+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-04T14:57:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b3038e6-4b99-4ed5-8b84-559ea3c23c5b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3f37883350fb5bf97dbcf83fef6fee409294078e242b14c820ace94f6584f4f8"
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 1194 (2021) — TO ALLOW THE COMMISSIONER OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TO ROUND THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE BETWEEN THE PURCHASE PRICE OF A COMMODITY AND THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS TO THE NEAREST ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1194-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1194** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1194.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- L. Eads — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14T20:36:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-14T21:42:40+00:00** 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`
- **2021-01-27T14:44:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-27T14:44:47+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-27T16:24:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-04T17:49:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08T19:30:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-08T21:30:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-08T21:30:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T23:51:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01T21:02:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01T21:02:59+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-01T22:52:20+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-01T22:52:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-02T16:59:41+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-04T14:57:00+00:00** Notification that HB1194 is now Act 262 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b3038e6-4b99-4ed5-8b84-559ea3c23c5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).