---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATUTORY BONDING REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATUTORY BONDING REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 202"
citation: "Arkansas SB 202 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Hickey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-05T22:27:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T21:46:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2e003c3-aaef-4439-9e85-54af95b40606"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a5b74213559043e82ff7620edc9383905299313980c129327b02c0a857fdf97f"
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 SB 202 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING STATUTORY BONDING REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OF THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 217** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=217.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB202-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 202** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB202.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- Hickey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05T22:27:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-05T22:37:15+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T13:59:22+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-02-13T13:59:32+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-13T16:06:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-13T16:06:10+00:00** Re-referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17T23:16:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T16:56:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-18T16:56:46+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-18T19:32:41+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-18T22:54:48+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T16:51:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T21:11:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T21:11:19+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:26:07+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:26:11+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-26T22:32:50+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-26T22:32:54+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:46:29+00:00** Notification that SB202 is now Act 217 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2e003c3-aaef-4439-9e85-54af95b40606`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).