---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING ACT OF 2003."
description: "TO AMEND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING ACT OF 2003."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1312"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1312 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-29T20:58:09+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:26:48+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72cadfda-f7aa-48ae-94e6-1efdbc42f0b0"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8eac5360c0737212cfa22559e06d2347e7f67c5bf1d748efaf9d62a279c4fc16"
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 1312 (2025) — TO AMEND PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING ACT OF 2003.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 909** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=909.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1312-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1312-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1312** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1312.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29T20:58:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-29T23:43:54+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`
- **2025-04-07T13:43:14+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:43:16+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-07T16:26:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T18:41:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09T13:34:10+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-09T13:34:14+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-09T17:01:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-10T20:45:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T23:13:47+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-10T23:13:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T15:39:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15T19:37:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T19:37:54+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T21:26:34+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T21:26:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T13:43:33+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:26:48+00:00** Notification that HB1312 is now Act 909 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72cadfda-f7aa-48ae-94e6-1efdbc42f0b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).