---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION OF THE DESEGREGATION OF THE CHARLESTON AND FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN 1954."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION OF THE DESEGREGATION OF THE CHARLESTON AND FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN 1954."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 489"
citation: "Arkansas SB 489 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clowney", "G. Leding"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T21:36:23+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:44:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb6a2343-3efd-4f9d-a386-83b46adc0d76"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a047722c83e640a9671f69ff673330dcb96021d9addb72dabca65aa67e93a8f1"
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 489 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION OF THE DESEGREGATION OF THE CHARLESTON AND FAYETTEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN 1954.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 950** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=950.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 489** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB489.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Clowney — primary (person)
- G. Leding — primary (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T21:36:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:08:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:19:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02T20:29:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T20:29:51+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-02T22:01:09+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-03T00:45:10+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`
- **2025-04-14T21:25:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T21:37:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:37:37+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T23:56:42+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T23:56:47+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T12:39:00+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T12:39:04+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22T21:44:14+00:00** Notification that SB489 is now Act 950 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb6a2343-3efd-4f9d-a386-83b46adc0d76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).