---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES."
description: "TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Arkansas SB 3 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "D. Sullivan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-11-20T21:18:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-18T21:15:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84789284-6584-43ec-8150-c877cd83db32"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5bf40a9a1a8ad0da72fa8c36587cb8f3418902d86db7b9395660d9e418bf117e"
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 3 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 116** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=116.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB3-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB3-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB3-S1.pdf)
5. **SB 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- D. Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-20T21:18:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T18:59:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T13:24:31+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-01-21T13:25:03+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-01-21T19:35:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-01-21T19:36:17+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T19:34:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-29T20:52:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-29T20:52:50+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-29T21:59:26+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-29T23:45:26+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03T14:31:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-03T14:31:48+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03T16:11:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-05T19:33:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T22:30:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T22:31:10+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 2
- **2025-02-06T23:20:13+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-06T23:20:24+00:00** AS AMENDED, Amendment # 2
- **2025-02-06T23:20:42+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T19:45:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12T19:55:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-12T19:55:47+00:00** House Amendment No. 2 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-02-12T19:55:57+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-02-12T19:56:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12T19:56:18+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-13T15:29:02+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-13T15:29:07+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-18T21:15:57+00:00** Notification that SB3 is now Act 116 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84789284-6584-43ec-8150-c877cd83db32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).