---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 88"
citation: "Arkansas SB 88 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-22T17:04:41+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:37:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/656482e3-a192-4bfe-8069-b079733b54ca"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "057ba738a36d70f63f96f777ada7d4092c2419f87ce52cd1aafe0bb7faecac6d"
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 88 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 610** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=610.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB88-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB88-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 88** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB88.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22T17:04:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-22T19:34:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T21:16:14+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-17T21:16:20+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-17T21:59:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-17T22:32:54+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:49:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T19:32:31+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T19:32:40+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-03T21:20:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-07T21:10:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T21:10:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-07T21:10:11+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T23:43:38+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:08:47+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T21:13:53+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-04-08T21:13:54+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-04-08T21:13:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T21:13:56+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-08T21:13:57+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2025-04-09T03:54:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T03:54:16+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T14:02:14+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-09T14:02:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14T22:37:51+00:00** Notification that SB88 is now Act 610 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/656482e3-a192-4bfe-8069-b079733b54ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).