---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE A LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE UNDER THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR UNTIL A NEW APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IS ADOPTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO REQUIRE A LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE UNDER THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR UNTIL A NEW APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IS ADOPTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 182"
citation: "Arkansas SB 182 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnes", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03T22:37:09+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-11T19:36:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e69152b-19fb-483d-9150-15c792788d28"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ea2ce5d1a17eb24322e66212decf28a67593ab3dc81cb2f9704c0c81ecfbad43"
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 182 (2025) — TO REQUIRE A LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE UNDER THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR UNTIL A NEW APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE IS ADOPTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 24** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=24.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 182** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB182.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Barnes — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03T22:37:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T22:50:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T21:21:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05T19:56:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T19:56:31+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-05T19:56:42+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-05T21:40:43+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-05T23:18:31+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T19:33:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T19:46:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T19:46:56+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-10T19:47:02+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-10T20:33:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-10T20:33:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-10T20:36:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-10T20:36:43+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-11T19:36:34+00:00** Notification that SB182 is now Act 24 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e69152b-19fb-483d-9150-15c792788d28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).