---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1270"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1270 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-26T18:00:02+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T15:00:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7a00e7b-a8d7-47b1-abb4-0f69a914ffa2"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3d81c6bf0b90f2716d2d7adfaaccc74ae7daad6fdc1acc22493202bfadf4b022"
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 HB 1270 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 435** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=435.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1270-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1270** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1270.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26T18:00:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-26T22:41:02+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07T20:22:22+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-07T20:22:26+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07T21:19:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-16T16:15:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-28T19:39:10+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2023-03-28T19:39:11+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2023-03-28T19:39:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28T19:39:13+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-28T22:11:19+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-28T22:11:25+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-29T22:09:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T22:09:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-29T22:09:22+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-03-29T22:36:18+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-29T22:36:20+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-30T14:19:20+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-04T15:00:54+00:00** Notification that HB1270 is now Act 435 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7a00e7b-a8d7-47b1-abb4-0f69a914ffa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).