republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-142.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO CREATE THE BELL TO BELL, NO CELL ACT; AND TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES WITH REGARD TO STUDENT USE OF PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES.	TO CREATE THE BELL TO BELL, NO CELL ACT; AND TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES WITH REGARD TO STUDENT USE OF PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 142	Arkansas SB 142 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dees Eubanks	3	26	0	2025-01-29T21:47:04+00:00	2025-02-24T19:35:05+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5d4c17e9-a58d-4cc8-b991-5624ada7b11f	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	e2a97937a20f31773f358395e5a7de39b8cdbf8a9d39fe9002814b2a24c0f745	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 142 (2025) — TO CREATE THE BELL TO BELL, NO CELL ACT; AND TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES WITH REGARD TO STUDENT USE OF PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 122 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 142 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Dees — primary (person)
• Eubanks — primary (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Duke — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• N. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• Torres — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29T21:47:04+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-01-29T21:57:53+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-03T19:33:26+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-04T20:32:21+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04T20:32:34+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-02-04T21:51:26+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-02-04T22:55:58+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
• 2025-02-06T19:16:54+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-10T20:52:58+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-02-11T18:09:13+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-02-12T14:36:55+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-12T14:36:58+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-12T16:24:30+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-13T20:27:33+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-13T20:27:43+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-02-13T21:50:54+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-02-13T21:53:16+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-02-17T19:54:35+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-18T16:50:31+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-18T16:50:46+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-02-18T16:50:56+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-02-18T16:51:10+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-18T16:51:20+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-02-18T17:38:45+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-02-18T17:38:48+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-02-24T19:35:05+00:00 Notification that SB142 is now Act 122 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5d4c17e9-a58d-4cc8-b991-5624ada7b11f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).