---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 625"
citation: "Arkansas SB 625 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Brooks"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-03T22:38:16+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:40:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/002024db-4fd5-46e8-82f3-998fca47687f"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9f872d64c1c808172930541298ea21a3baa751db5cff75360d160c093c3f155f"
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 625 (2025) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM ACCOUNT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 920** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=920.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB625-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB625-S1.pdf)
4. **SB 625** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB625.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-03T22:38:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-03T22:58:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T01:50:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T01:50:48+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-10T01:50:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-10T01:51:00+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-10T02:20:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-10T19:46:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T19:47:39+00:00** Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
- **2025-04-10T19:48:25+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed of Adoption. Motion Carried.
- **2025-04-10T19:48:50+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-10T19:48:59+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-10T21:46:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-10T23:41:19+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T18:54:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T13:31:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-15T13:31:52+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-15T14:39:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-16T15:13:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T15:14:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-16T15:14:13+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-16T17:25:07+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-16T17:25:15+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-16T17:25:20+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-16T17:25:37+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-04-16T17:25:42+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-16T17:25:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T17:26:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-16T17:26:07+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T19:22:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T19:22:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22T21:40:28+00:00** Notification that SB625 is now Act 920 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/002024db-4fd5-46e8-82f3-998fca47687f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).