---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF REAPPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF REAPPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 198"
citation: "Arkansas SB 198 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T21:27:23+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-17T19:45:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd1af1dd-9aba-4132-8e2e-47e046b0a229"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "be67396657053b5c11276602332f259bfbada4396e0883c842a35ffc1a3f3b5a"
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 198 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF REAPPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 81** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=81.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 198** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB198.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04T21:27:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-04T22:02:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T18:09:06+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.
- **2025-02-10T21:26:06+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-10T23:19:50+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.
- **2025-02-11T21:42:59+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:43:03+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-11T21:57:54+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-11T21:57:57+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-17T19:45:09+00:00** Notification that SB198 is now Act 81 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd1af1dd-9aba-4132-8e2e-47e046b0a229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).