---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 75"
citation: "Arkansas SB 75 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T15:54:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-04T21:54:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/068f15df-b96e-4f9b-a237-9f375ae5b5c0"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fc32c3ddca713bd26793e3a72914fe14db7250f7e209d42777b51f9fbe5f4fbc"
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 75 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF 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 244** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=244.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB75-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 75** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB75.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T15:54:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-16T16:15:15+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T17:12:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-24T20:49:04+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-24T20:49:13+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-24T21:03:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-25T21:55:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:55:18+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-25T21:55:28+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-25T22:36:39+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-25T23:08:42+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T20:13:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27T20:14:03+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-27T20:14:08+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-27T21:48:38+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-27T21:48:45+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-27T21:53:06+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-27T21:53:09+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-04T21:54:20+00:00** Notification that SB75 is now Act 244 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/068f15df-b96e-4f9b-a237-9f375ae5b5c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).