---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCESS AND TRANSPARENCY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ACCESS TO LEARNING MATERIALS."
description: "TO CREATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCESS AND TRANSPARENCY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ACCESS TO LEARNING MATERIALS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 572"
citation: "Arkansas SB 572 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dotson", "McAlindon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-28T16:10:30+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:48:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24849086-2359-4a41-93a9-ce88198904c7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3905091697bf9c3daa74cf32fb319734d4b42e9915701710c5e78f0e272bf1e7"
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 572 (2025) — TO CREATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCESS AND TRANSPARENCY ACT; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ACCESS TO LEARNING MATERIALS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 649** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=649.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB572-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB572-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 572** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB572.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Dotson — primary (person)
- McAlindon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-28T16:10:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-31T19:06:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T22:25:23+00:00** Amendment #1 was withdrawn.
- **2025-04-01T22:25:34+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-01T22:25:43+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2025-04-01T22:25:50+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-01T23:26:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T23:26:13+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:16:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T21:05:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T21:05:50+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-03T22:05:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-04T00:18:45+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`
- **2025-04-08T18:40:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T00:42:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T00:42:29+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:20:56+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T04:21:01+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T13:17:31+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-10T13:17:34+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-18T20:48:07+00:00** Notification that SB572 is now Act 649 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24849086-2359-4a41-93a9-ce88198904c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).