---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2024F"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "Arkansas SB 17 (2024F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-02T14:17:15+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-30T19:13:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33925773-8c09-4726-8a75-fd8d2e3b0fc9"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c39c1670d3e0a8e1473e8d721ab4199b70bfb11f31a13b76c8e102ad232d1447"
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 17 (2024F) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 17** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2024F/Bills/SB17.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-02T14:17:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2024-04-10T17:45:26+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18T18:32:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-23T19:04:17+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2024-04-23T19:54:46+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2024-04-24T20:23:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-24T20:23:16+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-24T20:23:17+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2024-04-24T21:06:16+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2024-04-24T21:30:35+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-25T16:34:51+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2024-04-25T16:34:52+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2024-04-25T16:34:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-25T16:34:54+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-25T16:34:55+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2024-04-25T17:31:46+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2024-04-25T17:31:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2024-04-25T17:42:32+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2024-04-25T17:42:36+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-30T19:13:17+00:00** Notification that SB17 is now Act 121 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33925773-8c09-4726-8a75-fd8d2e3b0fc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).