An Act For The University Of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical College Appropriation For The 2025-2026 Fiscal Year.
HB1227 is the annual appropriation act for the University of Arkansas–Pulaski Technical College for fiscal year 2025-2026. It authorizes the college to spend state and cash funds for personal services, operating expenses, funded depreciation, contingency, capital improvements, debt service, and promotional items, and it sets maximum numbers of authorized positions and salary rates across administrative, academic, auxiliary, and temporary staff categories. The bill also includes an emergency clause so it takes effect on July 1, 2025, ensuring the college’s budget authority is in place at the start of the fiscal year.
The act appropriates $17,816,509 from state operations funds and $56,135,000 from cash funds, for a combined total of $73,951,509. It establishes or continues a wide range of positions, including faculty, administrators, IT staff, public safety personnel, student services staff, and auxiliary enterprise workers, while also authorizing up to 400 extra-help employees. The bill is primarily a budget and staffing measure rather than a policy change, but it directly governs how the college may use public funds and how many employees and salary levels it may maintain during the fiscal year.
HB1227 amends state law only for the limited purpose of making a fiscal-year appropriation for the University of Arkansas–Pulaski Technical College. It affects budget authority, salary caps, employee classifications, and spending limits for the college, while requiring compliance with Arkansas procurement, accounting, revenue stabilization, salary, and higher education expenditure laws. The bill does not create new substantive education policy; instead, it authorizes spending and staffing within existing statutory fiscal controls.
The available voting history shows strong, unanimous support for the bill, with 99-0 passage in the House and 32-0 passage in the Senate on third reading. No committee transcripts are available, but the lack of recorded opposition and the emergency clause suggest the measure was treated as a routine and necessary budget bill. Overall sentiment appears broadly favorable and noncontroversial.
There is no recorded substantive contention in the provided materials. Because the bill is an appropriation measure, any discussion would likely have focused on funding levels, staffing authority, and compliance with budget procedures rather than policy disputes. The unanimous votes indicate no visible disagreement among legislators about the college’s funding request or the structure of the appropriation.