republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-248.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CHALLENGE PLUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CHALLENGE PLUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 248	Arkansas SB 248 (2023)	bill		enacted	Evans J. English	3	19	2	2023-02-10T15:23:35+00:00	2023-04-04T17:36:19+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0740675b-3e3b-4d42-9fff-7561761efe1c	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	24932ed593e91e11d2bfcd980c30b7a76e91036186d99a62de4fcce65543fe6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 248 (2023) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS CHALLENGE PLUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

Version chain

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

1. Act 386 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 248 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)
• J. English — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-10T15:23:35+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-13T19:19:27+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-14T14:17:53+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-02-14T14:17:57+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-14T14:18:03+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-14T19:15:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-14T19:15:48+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-16T00:23:15+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-27T18:47:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-27T18:47:40+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-27T21:12:07+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-27T23:10:34+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-28T19:25:09+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-28T19:25:14+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-28T21:22:57+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-03-28T21:23:24+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-29T13:54:11+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-29T13:54:17+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-04T17:36:19+00:00 Notification that SB248 is now Act 386 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0740675b-3e3b-4d42-9fff-7561761efe1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).