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ArkansasHB10852026 Fiscal SessionHouse

AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND REAPPROPRIATION.

Sponsored By: Joint Budget Committee

Enacted

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Continued funding for Arkansas historic resources

Beginning July 1, 2026, the law renews up to $1.118 million in remaining funds for the school. The money comes from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Grant and Trust Fund. It supports buying, managing, caring for, or preserving state-owned lands, historic sites, buildings, structures, and objects. Spending is limited to available funds and must follow the law's fiscal controls and documented budget purposes. Maintenance and General Operations appropriations cannot pay for this work.

Continued campus funding for deaf, blind students

Beginning July 1, 2026, the law renews two funding balances for the Arkansas School for the Deaf and Blind. Their separate caps are $20.750936 million and $35 million, paid from the Development and Enhancement Fund. The money covers campus property purchases, construction, equipment, maintenance, renovations, upgrades, improvements, and repairs. For all funding under this law, agencies cannot award contracts or take on obligations beyond available State Treasury funds. Grants, donations, federal funds, and uncommitted cash can supplement project funding, but Maintenance and General Operations appropriations cannot. Spending must follow state purchasing, accounting, budget, revenue, and other fiscal-control rules unless another law specifically allows otherwise. Funds must also follow the purposes documented in agency requests and official executive and legislative budget recommendations.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Joint Budget Committee

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 130 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/23/2026

Senate Vote - Thursday, April 23, 2026 11:31:23 AM

Yes: 33 • No: 0

House vote • 4/22/2026

House Vote - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 2:02:07 PM

Yes: 97 • No: 0 • Other: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Notification that HB1085 is now Act 108

    4/27/2026House

  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.

    4/23/2026House

  3. TO BE ENROLLED

    4/23/2026House

  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.

    4/23/2026House

  5. Returned to the House as Passed.

    4/23/2026Senate

  6. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED

    4/23/2026Senate

  7. Read the third time and passed.

    4/23/2026Senate

  8. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar.

    4/22/2026Senate

  9. Received from the House.

    4/22/2026Senate

  10. EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED

    4/22/2026House

  11. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

    4/22/2026House

  12. Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.

    4/22/2026House

  13. RULES SUSPENDED

    4/22/2026House

  14. Returned by the Committee Do Pass

    4/21/2026House

  15. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE

    4/14/2026House

  16. Filed

    4/14/2026House

Bill Text

  • HB1085 - Introduced

    4/14/2026

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  • Act Version

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