---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1123"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1123 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15T14:46:53+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-13T19:35:31+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d4b9447-483d-4f48-9c38-386bb33533b2"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "daf00ee3dea75b9f667579cb3ac5b88a422879793cb26b66ffb68790ab87a0e3"
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 1123 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMISSION 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 86** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=86.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1123** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1123.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T14:46:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-15T22:52:07+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`
- **2025-02-06T17:33:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T21:12:00+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-02-10T21:12:01+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-02-10T21:12:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T21:12:03+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-10T23:27:39+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-10T23:27:44+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-02-11T20:28:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T20:28:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-11T20:28:37+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:09:40+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:09:43+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-11T21:09:45+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-13T19:35:31+00:00** Notification that HB1123 is now Act 86 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d4b9447-483d-4f48-9c38-386bb33533b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).