republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-477.md

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Bill	TO CREATE A MEANS BY WHICH STUDENTS WHO QUALIFY FOR REDUCED-PRICE MEALS AT SCHOOL RECEIVE FREE MEALS AT SCHOOL.	TO CREATE A MEANS BY WHICH STUDENTS WHO QUALIFY FOR REDUCED-PRICE MEALS AT SCHOOL RECEIVE FREE MEALS AT SCHOOL.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 477	Arkansas SB 477 (2023)	bill		enacted	J. Dismang Vaught	4	23	2	2023-03-24T17:49:16+00:00	2023-04-11T21:02:29+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/10d099f6-a610-4f4a-8a72-a05d22feafad	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	e6611d5bf59ccb0276042ed4af6c3d4cc07c91891144c04f417c38530be5ce17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 477 (2023) — TO CREATE A MEANS BY WHICH STUDENTS WHO QUALIFY FOR REDUCED-PRICE MEALS AT SCHOOL RECEIVE FREE MEALS AT SCHOOL.

Version chain

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

1. Act 656 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 477 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• J. Dismang — primary (person)
• Vaught — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
• Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Clowney — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Crowell — cosponsor (person)
• D. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Duffield — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Ennett — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• F. Love — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Hickey — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
• Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
• J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
• J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• John Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCullough — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Nicks — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Steimel — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)
• Tosh — cosponsor (person)
• V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-24T17:49:16+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-24T20:48:48+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29T18:37:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29T20:28:53+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-29T20:28:57+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-29T20:29:02+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-29T22:29:55+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-30T21:33:51+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-30T21:34:14+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-30T21:34:19+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-30T23:37:35+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-31T00:17:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-31T00:18:05+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-31T01:11:11+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-31T01:45:56+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
• 2023-04-04T22:51:43+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-06T00:50:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T00:50:31+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:22:38+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:22:41+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:58:05+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-06T14:58:06+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-11T21:02:29+00:00 Notification that SB477 is now Act 656 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10d099f6-a610-4f4a-8a72-a05d22feafad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).