---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS."
description: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 101"
citation: "Arkansas SB 101 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dotson", "Maddox"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-24T16:54:54+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-23T17:28:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a59683f3-b355-4f0a-b142-f25267aad374"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3b78ebdd435299088d2a5f6dded86e3c71f38aa4b1d7df16d55444a314476dc2"
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 101 (2023) — TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 124** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=124.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 101** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB101.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Dotson — primary (person)
- Maddox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24T16:54:54+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-24T19:18:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01T19:08:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-06T19:27:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06T19:27:25+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-02-06T20:12:48+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-02-06T23:01:25+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`
- **2023-02-14T19:31:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-15T20:26:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-15T20:26:29+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-02-15T21:45:55+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-02-15T21:45:58+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-02-16T14:16:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-02-16T14:16:14+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-23T17:28:28+00:00** Notification that SB101 is now Act 124 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a59683f3-b355-4f0a-b142-f25267aad374`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).