All Roll Calls
Yes: 131 • No: 0
ArkansasSB1982025 Regular SessionSenate
AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF REAPPROPRIATION.
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’s blind and deaf schools retain funding
Beginning July 1, 2025, Arkansas’s School for the Blind and School for the Deaf retain previously approved campus funding. Each school can use its remaining balance, capped at $15 million, from the Development and Enhancement Fund. The money covers campus maintenance, repairs, renovations, equipment, construction, property purchases, improvements, and upgrades—not direct household payments. The schools can add grants, donations, federal funds, and other available, uncommitted funds to cover project costs. Spending and contracts cannot exceed funds actually available. The schools must follow state purchasing, accounting, budget, revenue stabilization, and other fiscal laws unless another law provides an exception. They cannot use their Maintenance and General Operations funding for these projects.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Joint Budget Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/11/2025
House Vote - Tuesday, February 11, 2025 2:17:54 PM
Yes: 99 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/10/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, February 10, 2025 2:36:59 PM
Yes: 32 • No: 0 • Other: 1
Actions Timeline
Notification that SB198 is now Act 81
2/17/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
2/11/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
2/11/2025SenateORDERED ENROLLED
2/11/2025SenateReturned from the House as passed.
2/11/2025SenateReturned To Senate as Passed.
2/11/2025HouseEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
2/11/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
2/11/2025HouseConsidered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
2/11/2025HouseRULES SUSPENDED
2/11/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR.
2/10/2025HouseRECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
2/10/2025HouseOrdered Immediately transmitted to the House.
2/10/2025SenateEMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
2/10/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
2/10/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
2/6/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
2/4/2025SenateFiled
2/4/2025Senate
Bill Text
SB198 - Introduced
2/4/2025
Act Version
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