---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIES OF CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENTS ON THE STATE OF THEIR DEPARTMENTS."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIES OF CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENTS ON THE STATE OF THEIR DEPARTMENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "Arkansas SB 63 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hickey", "Wardlaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15T15:16:33+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T21:47:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8c7f265-3348-494a-8869-9ec84726f45f"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "09332df4b2dd26d7705a2db5a55a4abab2bd1de9d48738583dae06ddc8019d3b"
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 63 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIES OF CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENTS ON THE STATE OF THEIR DEPARTMENTS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 219** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=219.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB63-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 63** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB63.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hickey — primary (person)
- Wardlaw — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T15:16:33+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-15T16:05:04+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T13:25:50+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-01-21T13:26:17+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-01-21T19:38:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-01-21T19:38:28+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T19:35:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-29T20:55:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-29T20:55:34+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-29T21:59:37+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-29T23:45:40+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`
- **2025-02-24T22:44:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:59:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T21:00:00+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:22:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:22:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-26T22:30:51+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-26T22:30:54+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:47:07+00:00** Notification that SB63 is now Act 219 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8c7f265-3348-494a-8869-9ec84726f45f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).