---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THAT A UNIT DEDICATED TO ARKANSAS VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES BE INCLUDED WITHIN EXISTING ARKANSAS HISTORY COURSE CONTENT GUIDELINES."
description: "TO REQUIRE THAT A UNIT DEDICATED TO ARKANSAS VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES BE INCLUDED WITHIN EXISTING ARKANSAS HISTORY COURSE CONTENT GUIDELINES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 515"
citation: "Arkansas SB 515 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Petty", "Nazarenko"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-19T13:42:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:47:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c365e55-e0b6-4820-abf2-188749b779b4"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "36ed40cd6389044bcd763713bd9242624c800b82e53508ed70183a3eb78981e7"
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 515 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THAT A UNIT DEDICATED TO ARKANSAS VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES BE INCLUDED WITHIN EXISTING ARKANSAS HISTORY COURSE CONTENT GUIDELINES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 647** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=647.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB515-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 515** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB515.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Petty — primary (person)
- Nazarenko — primary (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- F. Love — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-19T13:42:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-19T18:48:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T20:31:03+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-03-20T20:31:12+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-20T20:31:24+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-20T21:01:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T21:02:00+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T18:46:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01T21:23:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:23:25+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-01T22:46:21+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-02T01:50:04+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`
- **2025-04-08T18:42:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T00:48:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T00:48:36+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:17:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:17:26+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:15:50+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-10T13:15:53+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T20:47:15+00:00** Notification that SB515 is now Act 647 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c365e55-e0b6-4820-abf2-188749b779b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).