---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1124"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1124 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15T14:51:25+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T22:35:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e66e12ec-5854-4731-b0b7-d9a5a7876863"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "58e4325e3acf3e632d994c35e367e22d491f9401f4a71a983fccadda1bb44ceb"
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 1124 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION 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 542** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=542.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1124-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1124** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1124.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T14:51:25+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-15T22:52:21+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`
- **2025-03-18T20:15:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-18T20:15:55+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-18T22:26:36+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-02T18:25:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T21:18:07+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-04-03T21:18:08+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-04-03T21:18:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T21:18:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-03T23:34:51+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-03T23:34:56+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-07T21:08:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T21:08:29+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-07T21:08:31+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-04-07T21:54:46+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-07T21:54:51+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T15:02:11+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T22:35:26+00:00** Notification that HB1124 is now Act 542 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e66e12ec-5854-4731-b0b7-d9a5a7876863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).