---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2024F"
identifier: "SB 51"
citation: "Arkansas SB 51 (2024F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-03T13:32:43+00:00"
last_action: "2024-05-09T17:03:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9279931a-6c82-42e2-a858-36f8b51322c1"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8b1970913bfb38a3f6b4f24edfdcb70f5cdb9beefcbad94987bf2748bd519f39"
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 51 (2024F) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES 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 51** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2024F/Bills/SB51.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-03T13:32:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2024-04-10T18:00:51+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24T20:19:11+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2024-04-24T20:19:22+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2024-04-24T21:35:39+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2024-04-24T21:35:54+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25T17:04:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-30T18:38:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2024-04-30T18:38:15+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2024-04-30T19:54:09+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2024-05-01T19:17:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-01T19:17:41+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-05-01T19:17:42+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2024-05-01T19:57:49+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2024-05-01T20:42:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-02T15:12:39+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2024-05-02T15:12:40+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2024-05-02T15:12:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-02T15:12:42+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-05-02T15:12:43+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2024-05-02T15:57:04+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2024-05-02T15:57:10+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2024-05-02T16:17:22+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2024-05-02T16:17:30+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-09T17:03:17+00:00** Notification that SB51 is now Act 166 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9279931a-6c82-42e2-a858-36f8b51322c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).