---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION."
description: "CONCERNING CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 470"
citation: "Arkansas SB 470 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beck", "J. Dotson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-23T21:12:50+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T21:01:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c2bafe6-9941-409b-8c4c-57aa205b8418"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f4d41576f39e1ab15a014e0ddbb920c932e85e9752a0a04e86778d219af950a8"
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 470 (2023) — CONCERNING CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 654** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=654.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB470-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 470** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB470.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **26–2** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **58–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beck — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — primary (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-23T21:12:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-23T21:53:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29T18:31:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29T20:27:32+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2023-03-29T20:27:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-29T20:27:39+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-29T22:31:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-30T21:59:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30T21:59:21+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-30T23:03:39+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-31T01:45:12+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`
- **2023-04-04T18:05:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06T00:05:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T00:05:27+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:22:10+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:22:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:57:20+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-06T14:57:21+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-11T21:01:47+00:00** Notification that SB470 is now Act 654 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c2bafe6-9941-409b-8c4c-57aa205b8418`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).