---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - SYSTEM AND VARIOUS DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - SYSTEM AND VARIOUS DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Arkansas SB 144 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-26T17:56:23+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T17:35:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/505f6322-ccfb-4995-a3a6-36c340412567"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "324408fbd4246414137c8a07667e2d4f7ea2a53dcc4186adc47ef7243a7beca4"
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 144 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - SYSTEM AND VARIOUS DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 382** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=382.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB144-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 144** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB144.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26T17:56:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-26T20:06:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23T19:52:10+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2023-02-23T19:52:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-23T19:52:23+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-02-23T20:16:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-23T20:17:06+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16T16:26:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27T20:10:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-27T20:10:04+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-27T20:10:05+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-27T21:14:05+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-27T23:09:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-28T19:49:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28T19:49:30+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-28T19:49:39+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-28T21:20:01+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-28T21:20:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-29T13:52:43+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-29T13:52:48+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-04T17:35:12+00:00** Notification that SB144 is now Act 382 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/505f6322-ccfb-4995-a3a6-36c340412567`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).