---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION."
description: "TO CREATE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 535"
citation: "Arkansas SB 535 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "Hester"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T18:09:23+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T21:27:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69cd85bb-65df-4388-8511-c9835d03b3a7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "78b520cf8767435929f0c65202499e1885940725720fde734a6fa2cf156930bb"
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 535 (2025) — TO CREATE A SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND THE ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 781** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=781.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 535** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB535.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- F. Love — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales Worthen — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Magie — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- McGruder — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20T18:09:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T20:45:26+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T20:47:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08T20:16:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:16:19+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-08T21:56:47+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-09T01:50:25+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T18:35:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T23:41:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T23:41:31+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:52:01+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T01:52:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:14:38+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-15T14:14:43+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T21:27:47+00:00** Notification that SB535 is now Act 781 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69cd85bb-65df-4388-8511-c9835d03b3a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).