---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES - STATEWIDE SHARED SERVICES - EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DIVISION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES - STATEWIDE SHARED SERVICES - EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DIVISION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Arkansas SB 296 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hickey", "Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-21T17:01:36+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-19T20:52:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e1d547f-c930-402b-af21-882e59efdbd7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "61d38ce5ab5bed0004851e983658adb7b7626dc017e0ccc93f3e3ccb20fc3b2e"
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 296 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES - STATEWIDE SHARED SERVICES - EMPLOYEE BENEFITS DIVISION 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 463** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=463.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB296-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 296** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB296.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hickey — primary (person)
- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-21T17:01:36+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-21T19:37:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16T16:26:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27T20:29:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-27T20:29:50+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-27T22:36:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-29T22:02:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T22:02:37+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-29T22:02:38+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-29T23:30:04+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-30T19:28:12+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2023-03-30T19:28:13+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2023-03-30T19:28:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30T19:28:15+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-30T19:28:16+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2023-03-31T16:49:47+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-31T16:49:49+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-31T17:02:44+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-31T17:02:47+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-19T20:52:24+00:00** Notification that SB296 is now Act 463 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e1d547f-c930-402b-af21-882e59efdbd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).