---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1312"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1312 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-27T17:42:01+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T19:06:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3ef83ac-e0e4-4ec0-a8e3-2fcb7c5b3355"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cebbe699d90441b367f53d1bdb9f9fc75035f9d2b52a998e7566d424c3a91dda"
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 1312 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTES 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 1312** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1312.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (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.

- **2021-01-27T17:42:01+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T22:37:37+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`
- **2021-02-04T17:52:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-09T19:40:33+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-02-09T19:40:34+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-02-09T19:40:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09T19:40:36+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-09T22:03:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-09T22:03:36+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-23T20:43:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T20:43:18+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-23T20:43:20+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-02-23T22:49:58+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-23T22:50:00+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-24T15:40:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-01T19:06:01+00:00** Notification that HB1312 is now Act 194 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3ef83ac-e0e4-4ec0-a8e3-2fcb7c5b3355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).