---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 36"
citation: "Arkansas SB 36 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13T14:38:12+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T20:38:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75279157-058e-4da7-aebf-3b81c01446b4"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fd718de38bf18ff4369769edc3333f6931926b1105bf97108966744b19b1f936"
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 36 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 890** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=890.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB36-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB36-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 36** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB36.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T14:38:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T19:15:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T21:13:55+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-17T21:14:07+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-17T21:59:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T21:59:31+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T19:34:23+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2025-04-03T19:34:33+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-03T21:18:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-03T21:18:36+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:44:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T19:15:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T19:15:36+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-09T19:15:37+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-09T22:05:29+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-10T02:10:14+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T21:50:20+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-04-10T21:50:21+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-04-10T21:50:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T21:50:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-10T21:50:24+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2025-04-10T23:08:30+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T23:08:33+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-14T13:32:22+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-14T13:32:30+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-21T20:38:40+00:00** Notification that SB36 is now Act 890 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75279157-058e-4da7-aebf-3b81c01446b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).