---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - FAYETTEVILLE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - FAYETTEVILLE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 145"
citation: "Arkansas SB 145 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-26T18:01:43+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T17:35:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02ffdd68-dbf7-4054-888e-3a73dc9dc2cc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8cd85816e28360d986d7598c1d4696b6bffbe9cfeaebb69ba94b4b407f677007"
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 145 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - FAYETTEVILLE 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 383** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=383.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB145-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 145** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB145.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–3** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26T18:01:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-26T20:11:01+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08T14:19:07+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2023-02-08T14:19:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-08T14:19:17+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-02-08T19:18:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-08T19:18:55+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16T16:26:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27T20:10:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-27T20:10:04+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-27T20:10:05+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-27T21:11:42+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-27T23:09:45+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-28T19:50:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28T19:50:08+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-28T19:50:20+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-28T21:20:51+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-28T21:20:55+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-29T13:53:01+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-29T13:53:04+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-04T17:35:28+00:00** Notification that SB145 is now Act 383 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02ffdd68-dbf7-4054-888e-3a73dc9dc2cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).