republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-125.md

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Bill	CONCERNING FREE SPEECH RIGHTS AT STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.	CONCERNING FREE SPEECH RIGHTS AT STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 125	Arkansas SB 125 (2023)	bill		enacted	Beck J. Dotson	5	32	2	2023-01-25T20:54:25+00:00	2023-04-11T20:35:07+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4c5d0fea-f35f-40cf-9306-754d51b7dae9	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	ed9da7d149d7fffc272e4dbf9ff3587a5d3dec892939b9257caff340bfa44cd8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 125 (2023) — CONCERNING FREE SPEECH RIGHTS AT STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

Version chain

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

1. Act 614 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 125 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 90–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beck — primary (person)
• J. Dotson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-25T20:54:25+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-25T21:28:06+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-09T14:14:31+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-02-09T14:14:36+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-09T14:14:43+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-09T17:14:23+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-09T17:14:30+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T20:39:32+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-14T20:39:48+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
• 2023-03-14T20:39:53+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-14T20:39:59+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-14T21:45:36+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-14T21:45:43+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-15T19:00:07+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-15T19:01:29+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
• 2023-03-15T19:01:34+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-15T19:01:41+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-15T20:37:11+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-15T20:37:25+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T18:29:17+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-28T19:22:07+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-28T19:22:27+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-28T21:03:34+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-28T22:48:35+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
• 2023-04-04T22:52:41+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-06T00:56:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T00:56:25+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:15:20+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:15:23+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:39:13+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-06T14:39:15+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-11T20:35:07+00:00 Notification that SB125 is now Act 614 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c5d0fea-f35f-40cf-9306-754d51b7dae9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).