---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES - JONESBORO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES - JONESBORO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1389"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1389 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ladyman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T16:26:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T22:36:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77cb325c-57e0-4b01-9459-3821a3a69c70"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fac6807327b87db4d10a4f78c7065971a0f2cf73f53c02b53d9dcb7ef35cc232"
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 1389 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES - JONESBORO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 547** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=547.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1389-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1389-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1389** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1389.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Ladyman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04T16:26:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-04T22:49:57+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`
- **2025-02-13T14:32:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-13T14:32:11+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T16:59:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-31T13:32:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-31T13:32:55+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-31T18:59:17+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T18:26:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T21:20:45+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-04-03T21:20:46+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-04-03T21:20:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T21:20:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-03T23:38:42+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-03T23:38:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-07T21:08:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T21:08:29+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-07T21:08:31+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-04-07T21:55:46+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-07T21:55:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T15:14:40+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T22:36:41+00:00** Notification that HB1389 is now Act 547 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77cb325c-57e0-4b01-9459-3821a3a69c70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).