---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS COLLEGE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS COLLEGE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2024F"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Arkansas SB 56 (2024F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-03T13:47:58+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-23T18:19:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2e76b5c-c83a-4c0f-b4c2-5ae7295f1599"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f12f424fc84fc560f84a6c87cfd19304c20169154a6a0b1ecc06394793d76028"
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 56 (2024F) — AN ACT FOR THE SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS COLLEGE 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 56** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2024F/Bills/SB56.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-03T13:47:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2024-04-10T18:02:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16T18:12:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-17T18:32:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-17T18:32:22+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-17T18:32:23+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2024-04-17T19:37:05+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2024-04-17T22:12:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-18T18:54:44+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2024-04-18T18:54:45+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2024-04-18T18:54:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-18T18:54:47+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-18T18:54:48+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2024-04-18T21:25:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2024-04-18T21:25:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2024-04-18T21:25:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2024-04-18T21:25:15+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-23T18:19:32+00:00** Notification that SB56 is now Act 19 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2e76b5c-c83a-4c0f-b4c2-5ae7295f1599`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).