---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 67"
citation: "Arkansas SB 67 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15T15:25:23+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-23T21:54:48+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6de7ffa-69d6-4968-a8cf-d57ebc1ebeff"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0b297d8294d4316ad1f06822be7cf602157a6f8347cd7658d66902787a1ca887"
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 67 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1016** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1016.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB67-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB67-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 67** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB67.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T15:25:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-15T16:06:42+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:47:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T19:01:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-09T19:01:26+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-09T20:24:41+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-09T22:56:02+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T18:20:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T16:36:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-14T16:36:43+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-14T17:55:00+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-15T19:31:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T19:31:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-15T19:31:30+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-15T20:17:28+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-16T02:41:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T17:00:24+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-04-16T17:00:25+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-04-16T17:00:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T17:00:27+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-16T17:00:28+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2025-04-16T19:01:31+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T19:03:07+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T19:03:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T20:37:44+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T20:37:47+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-23T21:54:48+00:00** Notification that SB67 is now Act 1016 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6de7ffa-69d6-4968-a8cf-d57ebc1ebeff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).