---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION OFFICES, OFFICERS, POLICIES, OR PRACTICES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT."
description: "TO PROHIBIT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION OFFICES, OFFICERS, POLICIES, OR PRACTICES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 520"
citation: "Arkansas SB 520 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Brown", "D. Sullivan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-19T19:42:07+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:15:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/315476ad-4800-4f71-9224-4169a255fe42"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e29538c4dbbc9b11ee6f1d3bbb96bb63703481b958d4306c64c3d1829f9d37e6"
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 520 (2025) — TO PROHIBIT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION OFFICES, OFFICERS, POLICIES, OR PRACTICES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 747** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=747.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB520-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 520** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB520.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Brown — primary (person)
- D. Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-19T19:42:07+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T00:23:15+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T21:56:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T20:27:49+00:00** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:32:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08T18:56:10+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-08T18:56:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-08T18:56:24+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-08T19:58:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T23:10:59+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-08T23:11:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T23:11:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-09T00:06:44+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-09T01:49:55+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T20:04:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T20:44:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T20:44:10+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T00:34:02+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T00:34:07+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:13:13+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:13:17+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:15:34+00:00** Notification that SB520 is now Act 747 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/315476ad-4800-4f71-9224-4169a255fe42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).