---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROVED CLAIMS."
description: "AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROVED CLAIMS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 132"
citation: "Arkansas SB 132 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-28T14:31:34+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:03:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ae82804-91b1-4ebd-a4e8-514ea92d180c"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d6f14f8e2a6d076407490a36846d19b5dbd3aaeca62b552ecf42e2b3d1f9b42a"
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 132 (2025) — AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROVED CLAIMS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 535** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=535.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB132-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB132-S1.pdf)
4. **SB 132** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB132.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28T14:31:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-28T19:38:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T18:43:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:33:32+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-03T21:33:42+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-03T22:59:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-05T22:01:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T22:01:18+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-05T22:01:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-05T22:31:30+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-05T23:24:17+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-12T19:27:52+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T17:58:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T20:56:59+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-01T20:57:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-01T22:12:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T20:56:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T20:56:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-02T20:57:04+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-03T01:01:23+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-03T19:24:58+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T19:25:09+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-04-03T19:25:19+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-03T19:27:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T19:27:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-03T19:28:04+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-04T14:54:01+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-04T14:54:03+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10T21:03:26+00:00** Notification that SB132 is now Act 535 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ae82804-91b1-4ebd-a4e8-514ea92d180c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).