---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE AUDITOR OF STATE - CONTINUING EDUCATION OF LOCAL OFFICIALS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE AUDITOR OF STATE - CONTINUING EDUCATION OF LOCAL OFFICIALS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "Arkansas SB 53 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-14T14:36:58+00:00"
last_action: "2025-01-30T22:58:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e7c7efe-b798-4664-9bed-c7c0f2927736"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "47c12a80f23e0ce5a58c395c576a03717502d18f569b4c2ce950e197ae04ffc8"
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 53 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE AUDITOR OF STATE - CONTINUING EDUCATION OF LOCAL OFFICIALS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=13.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 53** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB53.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14T14:36:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-14T16:09:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T19:40:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-22T20:18:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T20:19:30+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-22T20:19:51+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-22T21:04:14+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-22T22:50:48+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22T22:50:55+00:00** Speaker Transfer to the CALENDAR
- **2025-01-27T19:48:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T19:48:03+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-27T19:48:08+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-01-27T20:22:44+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-01-27T20:22:54+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-01-27T20:23:01+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-01-27T20:23:58+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-01-30T22:58:54+00:00** Notification that SB53 is now Act 13 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e7c7efe-b798-4664-9bed-c7c0f2927736`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).