republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-194.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 194	Arkansas SB 194 (2023)	bill		enacted	Cavenaugh Hester	5	31	3	2023-02-06T18:58:56+00:00	2023-03-14T18:16:14+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7c5783dd-7207-441c-930c-b860a8c649c7	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	3067fab0d1cbed3994d6c7ea0ee2c0efb2859df5b16b65c0d32b39c8a31a1b0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 194 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 185 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 194 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cavenaugh — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-06T18:58:56+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-06T20:10:32+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-08T14:21:37+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-02-08T14:21:42+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-08T14:21:49+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-08T19:19:21+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-08T19:19:28+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-02-09T17:21:18+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-13T19:23:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-13T19:24:06+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-13T20:30:19+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-13T22:38:03+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-15T14:35:23+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-15T14:35:25+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-15T16:34:53+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-20T22:47:33+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-21T20:33:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-21T20:33:42+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-21T20:33:53+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-02-21T22:05:36+00:00 Returned From the House as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-02-21T22:05:55+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-02-23T17:30:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-27T19:46:44+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-27T19:46:53+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2023-02-27T19:46:59+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-02-27T19:48:19+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-27T19:48:24+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-27T19:48:30+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-02-27T21:42:52+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-02-27T21:42:56+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-14T18:16:14+00:00 Notification that SB194 is now Act 185 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7c5783dd-7207-441c-930c-b860a8c649c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).