---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - MID-SOUTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - MID-SOUTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2024F"
identifier: "HB 1042"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1042 (2024F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-02T20:34:49+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-25T22:00:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc8e9976-6853-4ca6-ab2e-4a0d4cf8f513"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8855958248ce1dc45b1c3677a1a30fe490a4c612ef12b0f16672a2e787881c90"
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 HB 1042 (2024F) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - MID-SOUTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2024-2025 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1042** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2024F/Bills/HB1042.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-02T20:34:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2024-04-10T19:09:34+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16T18:18:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-18T18:33:23+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2024-04-18T18:33:24+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2024-04-18T18:33:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-18T18:33:26+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-18T20:52:39+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2024-04-18T20:52:44+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-23T19:33:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-23T19:33:11+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2024-04-23T19:33:13+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2024-04-23T21:37:52+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2024-04-23T21:37:54+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2024-04-24T15:13:08+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2024-04-25T22:00:35+00:00** Notification that HB1042 is now Act 62 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc8e9976-6853-4ca6-ab2e-4a0d4cf8f513`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).