republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-551.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS CODE AS IT PERTAINS TO REFERENCES TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS CODE AS IT PERTAINS TO REFERENCES TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 551	Arkansas SB 551 (2023)	bill		enacted	Brooks J. Dotson	2	17	2	2023-03-30T22:40:49+00:00	2023-04-12T13:37:16+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f5917ba6-813c-4253-b875-acb73adc8579	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	12beb127aec2715236d3a547f78f82f52350826640a19a512cf405262161bf4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 551 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS CODE AS IT PERTAINS TO REFERENCES TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 786 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 551 (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

Sponsors

• Brooks — primary (person)
• J. Dotson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-30T22:40:49+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-30T23:35:39+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-03T18:06:23+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-04T20:55:57+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T20:56:00+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-04-04T20:56:06+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-04-04T22:14:26+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-04-05T00:59:13+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
• 2023-04-06T17:12:40+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-07T14:44:53+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-07T14:44:55+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-04-07T14:45:00+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-07T17:42:31+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-07T17:42:33+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T19:15:24+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-07T19:15:37+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-12T13:37:16+00:00 Notification that SB551 is now Act 786 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5917ba6-813c-4253-b875-acb73adc8579. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).