---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF PROPERTY INSURANCE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND STATE-OWNED PROPERTY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF PROPERTY INSURANCE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND STATE-OWNED PROPERTY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 481"
citation: "Arkansas SB 481 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore", "Wardlaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T20:43:28+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:27:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25be1c52-a1e2-4fae-a78c-ae8a436d1c7f"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fedc0916ab02639b9672d1915670948e7ca11b9ab8b02b510d051e4e32a86622"
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 481 (2025) — TO CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF PROPERTY INSURANCE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND STATE-OWNED PROPERTY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 779** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=779.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 481** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB481.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Wardlaw — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Steimel — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T20:43:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T21:24:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:10:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02T20:01:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T20:02:12+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-02T20:02:32+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-02T22:00:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-03T00:44:40+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T19:27:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T21:47:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T21:47:37+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-14T21:47:43+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:48:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:48:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:07:26+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:07:30+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:27:11+00:00** Notification that SB481 is now Act 779 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25be1c52-a1e2-4fae-a78c-ae8a436d1c7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).