---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 147"
citation: "Arkansas SB 147 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway", "J. Dotson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-30T16:42:40+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T21:45:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e2a155e-d739-47bb-bb11-244f584d3fdb"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "dcd6150edb3a82a33ee5812807045988625800c74b65cfbe58856c34a7ef3ce7"
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 147 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 205** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=205.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB147-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 147** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB147.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30T16:42:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-30T17:16:42+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T14:00:16+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-02-05T14:00:26+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-05T19:38:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-05T19:38:23+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T19:37:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10T19:51:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T19:51:33+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-10T19:51:45+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-10T21:20:43+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-10T23:16:52+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T22:44:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T21:02:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T21:02:13+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-26T21:02:20+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:23:24+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:23:28+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-26T22:31:25+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-26T22:31:29+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:44:35+00:00** Notification that SB147 is now Act 205 `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-27T21:45:06+00:00** Notification that SB147 is now Act 205 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e2a155e-d739-47bb-bb11-244f584d3fdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).