republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-294.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE LEARNS ACT; TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE TWELVE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO CREATE THE LEARNS ACT; TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE TWELVE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 294	Arkansas SB 294 (2023)	bill		enacted	B. Davis Brooks	3	28	4	2023-02-20T22:55:23+00:00	2023-03-14T18:23:29+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0b918e5b-a06e-4729-8cc9-0c4eaf4a227a	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	46500f16e5a2adbe991c8d53ca035ec438d531b4db839fd460d3f3a4b794590a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 294 (2023) — TO CREATE THE LEARNS ACT; TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH GRADE TWELVE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 237 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 294 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 25–7 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 78–21 (pass) · lower
• Motion by Rep. Pilkington for immediate consideration passed — 63–28 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 26–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Davis — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Crowell — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Duffield — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Fortner — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• G. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
• J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
• John Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-20T22:55:23+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-20T23:00:53+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T23:13:29+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-23T19:50:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-23T19:50:48+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-23T19:50:55+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-23T20:21:46+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-23T21:58:10+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
• 2023-02-27T14:34:38+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-27T14:34:41+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-27T19:04:55+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-01T21:58:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-02T20:53:12+00:00 Motion by Rep. Pilkington for immediate consideration passed
• 2023-03-02T20:53:46+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-02T20:53:51+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-02T20:56:16+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-03-02T21:53:16+00:00 Returned From the House as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-03-02T21:53:25+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-06T22:55:34+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-07T21:39:33+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-07T21:39:39+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2023-03-07T21:39:49+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-07T21:41:44+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-07T21:41:48+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-07T21:42:11+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-07T21:43:37+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-07T21:44:40+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-14T18:23:29+00:00 Notification that SB294 is now Act 237 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b918e5b-a06e-4729-8cc9-0c4eaf4a227a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).