---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1147"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1147 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-15T20:39:49+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-25T13:27:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dfec48b-b338-42d8-bc83-d522a98d2300"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1f568cf65d2a6eeebed5e230f8a722f5ce0edfff491562e0b275d52fb7633b51"
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 1147 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE 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 408** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=408.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1147-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1147** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1147.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-15T20:39:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-15T22:58:04+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`
- **2025-03-06T17:56:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T19:42:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-12T19:42:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-12T21:13:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T20:21:16+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-03-18T20:21:17+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-03-18T20:21:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T20:21:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-18T22:05:14+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-18T22:05:24+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20T20:37:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:37:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-20T20:37:21+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-03-20T21:01:03+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-20T21:01:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-21T14:06:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-25T13:27:07+00:00** Notification that HB1147 is now Act 408 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dfec48b-b338-42d8-bc83-d522a98d2300`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).