---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REFLECT A MERGER BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE BY CHANGING THE NAME OF EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE."
description: "TO REFLECT A MERGER BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE BY CHANGING THE NAME OF EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Arkansas SB 46 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Hollowell"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13T18:23:40+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-12T19:35:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bb314e7-f20a-4b74-a7ef-bd6edfb09b04"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "801957f3d2e4ffa63009293418c6342124f0c50ee49143424f1642a1d215d258"
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 46 (2025) — TO REFLECT A MERGER BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE BY CHANGING THE NAME OF EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 25** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=25.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 46** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB46.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Hollowell — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13T18:23:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T19:18:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27T19:38:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28T19:49:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T19:49:52+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-01-28T20:17:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-01-28T23:19:16+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`
- **2025-02-04T19:29:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T20:10:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T20:10:19+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-05T22:04:08+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-05T22:04:14+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-05T22:06:49+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-05T22:06:53+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-12T19:35:04+00:00** Notification that SB46 is now Act 25 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bb314e7-f20a-4b74-a7ef-bd6edfb09b04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).