republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-246.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS ACCESS ACT; AND TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS ACCESS ACT; AND TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 246	Arkansas SB 246 (2025)	bill		enacted	J. Dismang M. Shepherd	4	22	0	2025-02-17T23:11:26+00:00	2025-03-18T21:01:17+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/55d43f71-e281-4eba-8442-8e626a6c952c	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	be8a6d5740a800e75b9fd55d7b77d8c4a56d280649bef4febf35552d2249a001	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 246 (2025) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS ACCESS ACT; AND TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 340 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 246 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• J. Dismang — primary (person)
• M. Shepherd — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• John Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Torres — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17T23:11:26+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-17T23:17:37+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T20:07:41+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-03-06T20:07:49+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-03-06T20:07:57+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-07T01:30:54+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-07T01:31:08+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-03-10T23:55:54+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-12T19:02:56+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-12T19:03:09+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-12T21:25:35+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-13T19:30:51+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-13T19:31:05+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-03-13T22:02:23+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-03-13T22:26:23+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-17T19:55:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-17T19:55:20+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-17T21:39:03+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-03-17T21:39:05+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-03-18T14:16:33+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-03-18T14:16:36+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-03-18T21:01:17+00:00 Notification that SB246 is now Act 340 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55d43f71-e281-4eba-8442-8e626a6c952c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).