---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM FUND."
description: "TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM FUND."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 416"
citation: "Arkansas SB 416 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Evans"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-13T22:31:47+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T20:47:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d61a5d20-891b-4675-b0b4-bf0645cb1905"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "423465f3f50e937a679599960b4fa0805394b65bf0427992a7d0c53787798fbb"
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 416 (2023) — TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF ARKANSAS PROGRAM FUND.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 640** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=640.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB416-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB416-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 416** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB416.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- Evans — primary (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-13T22:31:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-13T22:35:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15T18:29:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15T20:09:51+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2023-03-15T20:09:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-15T20:10:07+00:00** Amendment # 1 & 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-15T23:45:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-16T18:29:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T18:29:23+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-16T20:18:31+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-16T21:52:20+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`
- **2023-04-04T18:02:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-05T23:50:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T23:51:51+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:19:55+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:20:00+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:52:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-06T14:52:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-11T20:47:10+00:00** Notification that SB416 is now Act 640 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d61a5d20-891b-4675-b0b4-bf0645cb1905`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).