republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-538.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 538	Arkansas SB 538 (2025)	bill		enacted	Gilmore Wardlaw	4	25	0	2025-03-20T18:37:47+00:00	2025-04-18T21:28:10+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ae69aada-8c97-4d41-a56f-6f106dd2f26f	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	74b8b6199fd5a746bb94b654b7e52ed1c8a2e4d306afd92e213b624bb6e0b496	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 538 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.

Version chain

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

1. Act 782 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 538 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Gilmore — primary (person)
• Wardlaw — primary (person)
• Hickey — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-20T18:37:47+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-20T20:47:26+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02T21:42:23+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-02T21:42:30+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-04-02T21:42:38+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-02T22:34:35+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-02T22:34:42+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T21:43:28+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-07T21:43:35+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
• 2025-04-07T21:43:42+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-08T00:34:55+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-08T00:35:05+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-08T18:48:45+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T19:51:16+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T19:51:30+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-09T22:07:33+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-10T02:13:01+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T18:39:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T17:38:09+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T17:38:14+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T19:04:08+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T19:04:11+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T20:39:43+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T20:39:46+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-18T21:28:10+00:00 Notification that SB538 is now Act 782 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae69aada-8c97-4d41-a56f-6f106dd2f26f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).