---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM."
description: "TO CREATE THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 554"
citation: "Arkansas SB 554 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Wooldridge"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T22:06:30+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-23T21:55:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5e421eb-2e7b-4cef-8508-978d72d80341"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "505102f3b9d1fc032ceee933c2799719c0ec82a879a94d4ab3f30f28f1bcb83c"
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 554 (2025) — TO CREATE THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1022** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1022.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 554** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB554.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- Wooldridge — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20T22:06:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T23:32:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T00:16:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T20:53:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T20:54:08+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-03T22:04:42+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-04T00:17:54+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`
- **2025-04-15T18:30:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16T16:20:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T16:20:26+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T17:59:28+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T17:59:34+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T19:20:22+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T19:20:26+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-23T21:55:43+00:00** Notification that SB554 is now Act 1022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5e421eb-2e7b-4cef-8508-978d72d80341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).