---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE MILITARY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE MILITARY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1232"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1232 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-27T17:31:04+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-08T16:58:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e587d8b-70c7-4ad5-a490-a9135610ce75"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "886fb23450f927014157a93ab4dbe3855f5d9f5925040ffc6d504075dc78fa64"
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 1232 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE MILITARY 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 496** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=496.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1232-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1232** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1232.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27T17:31:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-27T23:46:17+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`
- **2025-03-13T16:41:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-18T20:18:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-18T20:18:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-18T22:35:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T21:01:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:01:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-02T00:19:06+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:19:12+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-02T21:45:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T21:45:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-02T21:45:25+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-02T23:38:09+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-02T23:38:13+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-03T13:53:34+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-08T16:58:09+00:00** Notification that HB1232 is now Act 496 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e587d8b-70c7-4ad5-a490-a9135610ce75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).