---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE NORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE TO APPOINT A PRESIDENT WITH AN INDUSTRY BACKGROUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE NORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE TO APPOINT A PRESIDENT WITH AN INDUSTRY BACKGROUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1133"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1133 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Unger"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15T16:56:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-01-30T19:25:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b55cef50-efd5-43a0-8ce8-e5bb409b18d1"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2a748e11bbb374fec672d56b6a263c5cb436f19b66429687a8c1be87aa72f3cf"
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 1133 (2025) — TO AUTHORIZE NORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE TO APPOINT A PRESIDENT WITH AN INDUSTRY BACKGROUND; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 10** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=10.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1133-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1133** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1133.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Unger — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T16:56:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-15T22:54:08+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21T17:35:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22T14:35:43+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-01-22T14:36:03+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-22T15:53:33+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-01-23T17:08:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-23T17:08:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-23T18:39:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-01-23T18:39:21+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27T19:37:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28T19:51:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T19:51:40+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-28T19:51:51+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-01-28T20:18:24+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-01-28T20:18:29+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-01-29T14:40:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-01-30T19:25:30+00:00** Notification that HB1133 is now Act 10 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b55cef50-efd5-43a0-8ce8-e5bb409b18d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).