---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 538"
citation: "Arkansas SB 538 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore", "Wardlaw"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T18:37:47+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:28:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae69aada-8c97-4d41-a56f-6f106dd2f26f"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "74b8b6199fd5a746bb94b654b7e52ed1c8a2e4d306afd92e213b624bb6e0b496"
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 538 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 782** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=782.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB538-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB538-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 538** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB538.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Wardlaw — primary (person)
- Hickey — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20T18:37:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T20:47:26+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T21:42:23+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-02T21:42:30+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-04-02T21:42:38+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-02T22:34:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T22:34:42+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T21:43:28+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-07T21:43:35+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2025-04-07T21:43:42+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-08T00:34:55+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T00:35:05+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:48:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T19:51:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T19:51:30+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-09T22:07:33+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-10T02:13:01+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`
- **2025-04-15T18:39:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16T17:38:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T17:38:14+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T19:04:08+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T19:04:11+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T20:39:43+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T20:39:46+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:28:10+00:00** Notification that SB538 is now Act 782 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae69aada-8c97-4d41-a56f-6f106dd2f26f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).