---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THE CREATION OF A POSTER REGARDING VETERANS' BENEFITS AND SERVICES; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EMPLOYERS TO DISPLAY THE POSTER."
description: "TO REQUIRE THE CREATION OF A POSTER REGARDING VETERANS' BENEFITS AND SERVICES; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EMPLOYERS TO DISPLAY THE POSTER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 497"
citation: "Arkansas SB 497 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Nazarenko"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-18T13:54:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:49:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1c238c0-1f55-45d4-b997-9f43de9d0598"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3303e2326a0d226f2752eecf97446ae24713c6007e3733eaaa8e03b8f2213a97"
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 497 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THE CREATION OF A POSTER REGARDING VETERANS' BENEFITS AND SERVICES; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EMPLOYERS TO DISPLAY THE POSTER.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 655** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=655.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 497** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB497.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Nazarenko — primary (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18T13:54:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-18T18:51:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:17:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T19:24:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T19:25:05+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T21:35:22+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:13:14+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T00:18:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T01:05:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T01:05:32+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:16:32+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:16:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:15:38+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-10T13:15:41+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T20:49:40+00:00** Notification that SB497 is now Act 655 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1c238c0-1f55-45d4-b997-9f43de9d0598`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).