All Roll Calls
Yes: 111 • No: 11
ArkansasHB16122025 Regular SessionHouse
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION DIVISION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored By: Joint Budget Committee
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Arkansas educational TV gets broadcast upgrade funding
Effective July 1, 2025, the law provides up to $8 million from Arkansas’s Development and Enhancement Fund. The money goes to the Department of Education’s Educational Television Division for the Next Gen TV (ATSC 3.0) broadcast upgrade. Funds must support that project and the purposes documented in the budget records supporting the law. The agency cannot award contracts or take on project costs beyond the money actually available. It can add grants, donations, federal funds, and available cash or other funds not already committed. It cannot use money set aside for maintenance and general operations. Spending must follow state purchasing, accounting, budgeting, revenue stabilization, and other applicable fiscal rules unless another law provides otherwise. This funds broadcasting equipment and facilities, not direct household payments.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Joint Budget Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/13/2025
Senate Vote - Thursday, March 13, 2025 3:43:08 PM
Yes: 34 • No: 0
House vote • 3/12/2025
House Vote - Wednesday, March 12, 2025 2:35:33 PM
Yes: 77 • No: 11 • Other: 10
Actions Timeline
Notification that HB1612 is now Act 336
3/18/2025HouseCorrectly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
3/14/2025HouseTO BE ENROLLED
3/13/2025HouseReturned from the Senate as passed.
3/13/2025HouseReturned to the House as Passed.
3/13/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
3/13/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/13/2025SenateRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar.
3/12/2025SenateReceived from the House.
3/12/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
3/12/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
3/12/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
3/6/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
2/27/2025HouseFiled
2/27/2025House
Bill Text
HB1612 - Introduced
2/27/2025
Act Version
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