---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "Arkansas SB 13 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-04T17:54:44+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-06T19:06:42+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c449c3f-13c7-4776-9e78-ce9d5c8c1106"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "07853baea23ab038625c78d1a44ab43fede20a10d9d7c01d57f6abc00ae29026"
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 13 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 14** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=14.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB13.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04T17:54:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-09T19:31:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24T19:15:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-25T19:48:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-25T19:48:15+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-01-25T19:48:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-01-25T20:35:22+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-01-25T22:34:53+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-01-26T17:37:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26T17:37:30+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-01-26T17:37:37+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-01-26T20:01:36+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-01-26T20:01:40+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-01-26T20:13:49+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-01-26T20:13:53+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-06T19:06:42+00:00** Notification that SB13 is now Act 14 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c449c3f-13c7-4776-9e78-ce9d5c8c1106`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).