---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ENHANCED TRANSPORTATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ENHANCED TRANSPORTATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 425"
citation: "Arkansas SB 425 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "J. English"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-11T19:34:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:04:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fa3da2b-e411-49a9-af57-008aaa6c1511"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8f8f926a794f639935cdb17c0cdaa4b685cb97110b66509979d547294c0d1984"
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 425 (2025) — TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ENHANCED TRANSPORTATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 722** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=722.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB425-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 425** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB425.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- J. English — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-11T19:34:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-11T21:14:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T13:06:59+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-20T13:07:06+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-20T18:40:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T18:40:30+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T18:44:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01T20:33:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T20:33:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-01T20:34:07+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-01T22:43:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-02T01:45:15+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T21:00:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T01:04:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T01:04:51+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-15T01:04:59+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:57:20+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:57:26+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:05:08+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:05:13+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:04:59+00:00** Notification that SB425 is now Act 722 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fa3da2b-e411-49a9-af57-008aaa6c1511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).