republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/sb-156.md

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Bill	TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT.	TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	SB 156	Arkansas SB 156 (2019)	bill		enacted	B. Ballinger	2	26	2	2019-01-23	2019-02-20	openstates	ocd-bill/32f8eda5-cd55-40ae-83d9-8b4319c03702	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	5b6b116659ef5263d60035460f0c5d731995758e0599a68801449e56b7ccaecb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 156 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH THE FORMING OPEN AND ROBUST UNIVERSITY MINDS (FORUM) ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 156 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 27–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 75–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Ballinger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-23 Filed introduction
• 2019-01-23 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2019-02-04 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-02-04 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-04 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2019-02-05 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
• 2019-02-05 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-02-05 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-05 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2019-02-06 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-07 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2019-02-07 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-02-07 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-11 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2019-02-11 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2019-02-11 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
• 2019-02-12 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-02-14 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-14 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2019-02-14 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2019-02-14 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2019-02-18 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2019-02-18 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2019-02-20 Notification that SB156 is now Act 184 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/32f8eda5-cd55-40ae-83d9-8b4319c03702. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).