SB25 is a fiscal session appropriation bill for the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton for fiscal year 2026-2027. It sets the maximum number of authorized positions, lists salary caps for a wide range of administrative, academic, support, public safety, and maintenance roles, and authorizes up to 110 extra-help temporary or part-time employees. The bill also establishes the college’s operating budget structure for the year, including state operations funding and a separate cash-funds appropriation.
The bill appropriates $7,047,112 from the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton Fund for regular salaries, matching, operating expenses, and contingency, and $29,000,000 in cash funds for salaries, extra help, overtime, matching, operating expenses, travel, professional fees, capital outlay, capital improvements, and debt service. It includes standard compliance language requiring spending to follow state procurement, accounting, budgetary, salary, and higher-education expenditure laws, and it contains an emergency clause making the act effective July 1, 2026.
SB25 does not change substantive education policy; it is an annual appropriations act that authorizes spending and staffing for a specific public community college. Its legal effect is to provide the spending authority and position limits needed for the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton to operate during the 2026-2027 fiscal year, while tying expenditures to existing state fiscal-control statutes and higher-education budget restrictions. It also creates an emergency effective date so the appropriations take effect at the start of the fiscal year.
The available voting history shows strong bipartisan support and no recorded opposition: the bill passed third reading in the Senate 33-0 and in the House 92-0. There are no committee transcripts provided, but the unanimous votes and the bill’s routine budgetary nature suggest broad agreement and little controversy. The final action indicates it became Act 9.
No notable substantive contention is reflected in the provided record. Because SB25 is a standard annual appropriation for a public college, any discussion would likely have focused on budget levels, staffing authority, or compliance with fiscal rules rather than policy disagreements. The unanimous votes indicate that neither chamber recorded significant opposition to the funding and position authorizations.