---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 245"
citation: "Arkansas SB 245 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-17T19:17:37+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-06T19:39:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d98f508b-ef72-478f-9a09-6ed577f36c0d"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8306cae8b9ac3df0befbd9eb56e14706ea2dc46108b80360b94d6ae8e59d901b"
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 245 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 258** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=258.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 245** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB245.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17T19:17:37+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T20:01:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T18:44:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:41:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T21:41:26+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-03T21:41:27+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-03T22:24:37+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-03T23:26:21+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-04T20:47:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T20:47:39+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-04T20:47:43+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-04T21:56:11+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-04T21:56:18+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-03-04T21:58:54+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-03-04T21:58:58+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-06T19:39:21+00:00** Notification that SB245 is now Act 258 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d98f508b-ef72-478f-9a09-6ed577f36c0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).