republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-400.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT.	TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 400	Arkansas SB 400 (2023)	bill		enacted	A. Clark	5	31	2	2023-03-09T19:56:31+00:00	2023-04-12T21:50:17+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/71eca958-f8a0-438a-9bb9-f4d8bfe39200	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	b922091aa15c65585bf6f31cd2e73e535e3d1cbca1506d6299d73878e6beef8f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 400 (2023) — TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 768 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 400 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 92–2 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• A. Clark — primary (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-09T19:56:31+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-09T21:36:35+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29T20:33:09+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-29T20:33:42+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-03-29T20:33:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-29T20:33:50+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-29T22:19:45+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-29T22:19:55+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-30T19:50:23+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-30T19:50:51+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
• 2023-03-30T19:50:55+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-30T19:51:02+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-30T21:41:02+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-31T00:35:29+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-31T00:35:36+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-31T00:35:45+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-31T01:08:16+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-31T01:08:25+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-04-03T18:01:22+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-04T18:55:16+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T18:55:22+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-04-04T22:12:24+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-04-05T00:55:45+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
• 2023-04-06T17:14:09+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-07T15:20:28+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-07T15:20:34+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-07T18:10:30+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-07T18:10:32+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T19:14:33+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-07T19:14:35+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-12T21:50:17+00:00 Notification that SB400 is now Act 768 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71eca958-f8a0-438a-9bb9-f4d8bfe39200. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).