---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 34"
citation: "Arkansas SB 34 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-06T18:46:53+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-23T17:26:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3680dcf-045a-4a32-9b72-472374e33370"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b222b683282597060243834fed72538cd28b7116c81688fba4346432e8ead5d7"
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 34 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 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 120** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=120.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB34-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 34** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB34.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (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.

- **2023-01-06T18:46:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-09T19:41:48+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17T14:24:53+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2023-01-17T14:24:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-01-17T14:25:03+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-01-17T19:09:46+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-01-17T19:09:56+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09T17:18:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13T19:43:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13T19:43:34+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-13T19:43:35+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-02-13T20:29:22+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-02-13T22:36:29+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-14T20:13:03+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2023-02-14T20:13:04+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2023-02-14T20:13:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-14T20:13:06+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-14T20:13:07+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2023-02-14T21:34:49+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-02-14T21:34:56+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-02-15T15:39:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-02-15T15:39:37+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-23T17:26:53+00:00** Notification that SB34 is now Act 120 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3680dcf-045a-4a32-9b72-472374e33370`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).