---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1002"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1002 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13T19:29:12+00:00"
last_action: "2025-01-16T21:40:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf8de43e-f639-4ef7-bc7d-62c453f1ba20"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "36e4076644724707df6f14918fb3c772c70c98b27e99688527e51ea33952aeca"
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 1002 (2025) — THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1002** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1002.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T19:29:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T20:52:04+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`
- **2025-01-14T19:31:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15T19:39:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-15T19:40:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-15T20:13:07+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-01-15T20:13:25+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-01-16T16:15:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-16T16:16:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-16T16:21:08+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-01-16T16:36:29+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-01-16T16:36:33+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-01-16T16:48:05+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-01-16T21:40:52+00:00** Notification that HB1002 is now Act 1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf8de43e-f639-4ef7-bc7d-62c453f1ba20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).