---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS SCHOLARSHIP LOTTERY ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS SCHOLARSHIP LOTTERY ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 232"
citation: "Arkansas SB 232 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cozart", "Hickey"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-13T21:01:52+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T18:08:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/971edb0b-fce8-4055-a48a-4d500b48065c"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e3eb0453fff1565672138f9c357fbe44b05397c5dd5cdf5bec1df6ee6cf48dd9"
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 232 (2025) — TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS SCHOLARSHIP LOTTERY ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 429** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=429.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB232-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB232-S2.pdf)
4. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB232-S3.pdf)
5. **SB 232** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB232.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Cozart — primary (person)
- Hickey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13T21:01:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-13T21:45:34+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T13:59:25+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-02-25T13:59:33+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-25T19:41:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-25T19:41:12+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T12:58:37+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2025-03-11T12:58:45+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-11T18:40:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-11T18:40:14+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T23:58:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18T18:53:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-18T18:53:10+00:00** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-18T20:45:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-19T19:27:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-19T19:27:36+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-19T19:27:46+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-19T21:33:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-19T22:24:20+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-31T20:27:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T20:27:11+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-31T20:27:18+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-31T22:49:09+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-31T22:49:17+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-01T14:13:53+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-01T14:13:59+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T18:08:12+00:00** Notification that SB232 is now Act 429 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/971edb0b-fce8-4055-a48a-4d500b48065c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).