---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE EVALUATION, EXTENSION, AND REPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES."
description: "CONCERNING THE EVALUATION, EXTENSION, AND REPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Arkansas SB 56 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eubanks", "J. Dotson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-14T16:00:32+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-06T22:17:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36b243f9-d0be-4cef-8862-c276d8c32474"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d4dd66bfbd0ed9d7841bff1bd8612c9ce38c824cc8a6eaa6396cd629db76fad2"
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 56 (2025) — CONCERNING THE EVALUATION, EXTENSION, AND REPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 21** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=21.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 56** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB56.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Eubanks — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14T16:00:32+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-14T16:11:48+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T19:42:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-22T19:47:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T19:48:05+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-22T21:03:49+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-22T22:51:51+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`
- **2025-01-29T19:19:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03T20:25:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03T20:25:19+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-03T21:31:36+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-03T21:31:48+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-03T21:43:38+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-03T21:43:42+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-06T22:17:33+00:00** Notification that SB56 is now Act 21 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36b243f9-d0be-4cef-8862-c276d8c32474`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).