---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Arkansas SB 74 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T15:51:41+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T23:17:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb5b83a7-b4fe-49bd-911f-82deded024e3"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9b97771aab25cc8374e10203a4265e1837ac583f62ae30b4f1686cf644fcea31"
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 74 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 192** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=192.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 74** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB74.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T15:51:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-16T16:14:47+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T17:45:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-17T21:23:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17T21:23:49+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-17T21:23:50+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-17T22:02:08+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-17T23:29:38+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-18T20:27:26+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-02-18T20:27:27+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-02-18T20:27:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-18T20:27:29+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-18T20:27:30+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2025-02-18T21:25:15+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-18T21:25:19+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-20T19:41:38+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-20T19:41:43+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-25T23:17:54+00:00** Notification that SB74 is now Act 192 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb5b83a7-b4fe-49bd-911f-82deded024e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).