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ArkansasSB1292025 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTICELLO APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.
Sponsored By: Joint Budget Committee
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Funding supports Monticello university staff and campuses
For July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law funds University of Arkansas at Monticello staff and operations. The main campus gets about $15.2 million in state funding and $27.581 million in cash-fund spending authority. McGehee gets about $2.51 million in state funding and $940,150 in cash-fund authority; Crossett gets about $1.87 million and $1.004 million, respectively. The Center for Forest Business gets $832,001 in state funding. The money covers wages, temporary help, employer benefit contributions, and operating costs, including overtime and professional fees where listed. Main-campus cash funds also include $7 million for capital purchases, $2.5 million for capital improvements, and $50,000 for debt payments. Spending must follow state finance, purchasing, and higher-education spending laws; this funding does not create direct household payments.
Monticello university jobs have staffing and pay limits
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the university can have up to 632 regular, full-time employees. It can also use up to 790 temporary or part-time workers at Monticello, 36 at McGehee, and 36 at Crossett. The law sets maximum pay by job, including faculty, administrators, support staff, public safety, athletics, and added workforce-education positions. Examples include $290,076 for the chancellor, $149,687 for a nine-month professor, and $71,305 for a public safety officer. Temporary workers are paid from appropriated funds, and their pay cannot exceed rates allowed by state classification law or this act.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Joint Budget Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/10/2025
House Vote - Monday, February 10, 2025 3:07:59 PM
Yes: 95 • No: 0 • Other: 1
Senate vote • 2/5/2025
Senate Vote - Wednesday, February 5, 2025 2:36:32 PM
Yes: 32 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Notification that SB129 is now Act 72
2/17/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
2/11/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
2/11/2025SenateORDERED ENROLLED
2/10/2025SenateReturned from the House as passed.
2/10/2025SenateReturned To Senate as Passed.
2/10/2025HouseEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
2/10/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
2/10/2025HouseConsidered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
2/10/2025HouseRULES SUSPENDED
2/10/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR.
2/5/2025HouseRECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
2/5/2025HouseOrdered Immediately transmitted to the House.
2/5/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
2/5/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
2/5/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
2/4/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
1/27/2025SenateFiled
1/27/2025Senate
Bill Text
SB129 - Introduced
1/27/2025
Act Version
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