---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2022-2023 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2022-2023 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2022F"
identifier: "SB 58"
citation: "Arkansas SB 58 (2022F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-08T20:42:47+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-08T22:30:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3cbbcc0b-68b5-434c-8983-f5e3e71f17ea"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4441633022bba8aa99b0d9ddb4d3c3f40a3b6d5a32fae9dbd7589d380cc6d5bb"
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 58 (2022F) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2022-2023 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2022F%2FPublic%2F&file=215.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2021%2F2022F)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2022F%2FPublic%2FSB58-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2022F%2FPublic%2FSB58-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 58** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2021/2022F/Bills/SB58.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08T20:42:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2022-02-14T18:37:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22T19:21:54+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2022-02-22T19:21:59+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2022-02-22T19:22:06+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2022-02-22T20:56:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2022-02-22T20:56:34+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02T21:40:30+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2022-03-02T21:40:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-02T21:40:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2022-03-02T21:42:37+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2022-03-03T01:58:48+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2022-03-03T18:17:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-03T18:17:46+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2022-03-03T20:07:57+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2022-03-03T20:50:59+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-07T18:44:19+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2022-03-07T18:44:20+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2022-03-07T18:44:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-07T18:44:23+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2022-03-07T20:37:43+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2022-03-07T20:37:48+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2022-03-07T20:37:53+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2022-03-07T20:37:58+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-08T22:30:02+00:00** Notification that SB58 is now Act 215 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3cbbcc0b-68b5-434c-8983-f5e3e71f17ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).