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SB 37 Arkansas Senate · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR.

SB 37 is a budget appropriation bill that sets funding and staffing levels for the Arkansas Department of Commerce for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. It increases the department's authorized staff count from 30 to 59 positions and raises funding across multiple divisions, such as raising the budget for the Chief Information Officer role from $272,000 to $500,000. The bill specifies maximum employee numbers and salary grades for roles like the Secretary of Commerce, Chief Workforce Officer, and various technical and administrative positions. The amended bill was passed by the legislature and became law as Act 608 on April 14, 2025.
Issues: ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill explicitly increases funding and staffing for state commerce department, directly advancing budget appropriations and fiscal management for government operations.95% confidence
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
Apr 2025
Introduced Jan 13, 2025 Signed Apr 14, 2025
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What changed between versions

Act 608 → SB 37 · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill text has been updated from Act 608 of the Regular Session to SB 37, reflecting a formal renumbering and reorganization of the legislative document. The substantive content of the bill appears unchanged in this excerpt, as the diff primarily shows formatting updates including the addition of blank lines and the replacement of the Act number with the new Senate Bill number.
TECHNICAL

The bill was renumbered from Act 608 to Senate Bill 37, indicating a procedural update rather than a substantive policy change.

Two blank lines were added after the title header, likely for formatting consistency in the official bill text.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
9
Committee
2
Apr 14, 2025
Signed into law
Notification that SB37 is now Act 608
upper
Apr 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned from the House as passed.
upper
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned To Senate as Passed.
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Lower · Passed
Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
lower
Apr 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
upper
Apr 7, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read the third time and passed.
upper
Apr 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1
upper
Jan 13, 2025
Introduced
Filed
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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