---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1259"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1259 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-27T21:15:15+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-13T19:36:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04a0621b-3adc-4442-846b-23bd10d81f1c"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0ef802dba06be8943444c731312b4f5e41e1a73b446efbe3a3e9858c9de006a8"
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 HB 1259 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE - ARKANSAS BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 88** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=88.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1259** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1259.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27T21:15:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-27T23:54:10+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T17:35:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T21:15:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T21:15:09+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-10T23:29:46+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-10T23:29:52+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-11T20:28:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T20:28:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-11T20:28:37+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:11:09+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:11:12+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-11T21:11:14+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-13T19:36:17+00:00** Notification that HB1259 is now Act 88 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04a0621b-3adc-4442-846b-23bd10d81f1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).