---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION REAPPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION REAPPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 192"
citation: "Arkansas SB 192 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T21:19:57+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-17T19:43:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45b545a8-2b84-433c-81ff-91f6f4f1d5fe"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "411c032e507f68d23ddafb407f69cdc6029f6c5bab1a902f2b28ac88e1d1a0b2"
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 192 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION REAPPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 75** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=75.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 192** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB192.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04T21:19:57+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-04T21:59:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T18:06:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10T20:36:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T20:37:00+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-10T20:37:01+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-10T21:24:58+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-10T23:18:21+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-11T20:17:52+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-02-11T20:17:53+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-02-11T20:17:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T20:17:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-11T20:17:56+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:40:19+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:40:24+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-11T21:56:05+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-11T21:56:08+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-17T19:43:38+00:00** Notification that SB192 is now Act 75 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45b545a8-2b84-433c-81ff-91f6f4f1d5fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).