---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING REPORTS BY THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR OF IMPROPER OR ILLEGAL PRACTICES."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING REPORTS BY THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR OF IMPROPER OR ILLEGAL PRACTICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 18"
citation: "Arkansas SB 18 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Gazaway"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-07T16:34:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-06T22:17:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0349ca6-e560-4157-bebb-00c30b1b4c78"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4f1c561b3f83b1a2bed6b5ee018fb979feda1e454064108242ef45af5afd4d3d"
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 18 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING REPORTS BY THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR OF IMPROPER OR ILLEGAL PRACTICES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 20** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=20.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB18-H1.pdf)
3. **SB 18** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB18.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Gazaway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07T16:34:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T19:06:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T19:41:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-22T19:45:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T19:45:48+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-22T21:03:41+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-22T22:50:31+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`
- **2025-01-29T19:20:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30T17:12:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-01-30T17:12:08+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30T17:35:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-03T20:18:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03T20:18:48+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-02-03T21:39:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-02-04T19:49:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-04T19:50:14+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-02-04T19:50:31+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-02-04T19:50:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T19:51:36+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-04T20:27:37+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-04T20:28:01+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-06T22:17:12+00:00** Notification that SB18 is now Act 20 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0349ca6-e560-4157-bebb-00c30b1b4c78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).