---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO RECONSTITUTE THE STATE LIBRARY BOARD."
description: "TO RECONSTITUTE THE STATE LIBRARY BOARD."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 640"
citation: "Arkansas SB 640 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-10T01:45:27+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:39:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12ed14bf-6b25-4be1-9614-f966f125d5a7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "47a790e7b8d7245a19f033c4cf7fec4b60a92bc8cff84de8275513e3cd581290"
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 640 (2025) — TO RECONSTITUTE THE STATE LIBRARY BOARD.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 903** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=903.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 640** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB640.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-10T01:45:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-10T02:14:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T18:28:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T20:34:34+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-10T20:35:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T20:35:41+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-10T21:46:47+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-10T23:42:49+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`
- **2025-04-14T21:26:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T21:42:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:42:49+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T00:00:19+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T00:00:23+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T12:43:58+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T12:44:05+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22T21:39:15+00:00** Notification that SB640 is now Act 903 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12ed14bf-6b25-4be1-9614-f966f125d5a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).