# HB 1202 Section 35 ARPA Appropriation Excerpt A one-page excerpt of **Engrossed Arkansas House Bill 1202** of the 2025 Regular Legislative session — specifically a portion of **Section 35** appropriating federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 pass-through funds. Included in the production as page 31 of `1513_001.pdf`. The excerpt is the statutory anchor for the **A.0960.ARPERR** fund/WBS code that funds the ASP-Leonardo ELSAG ALPR procurement. ## What's inside A page-31 excerpt from the bill's engrossed text. The page header reads (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 31): > *"As Engrossed: H3/12/25 H4/1/25 H4/10/25 HB1202"* — indicating successive House engrossment dates of March 12, April 1, and April 10, 2025 for House Bill 1202. ### Verbatim excerpt — Section 35 Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 31: > *"SECTION 35. APPROPRIATION - AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021. There is hereby appropriated, to the Department of Finance and Administration - Disbursing Officer, to be payable from various funds, for providing various state agencies, constitutional offices, and institutions with appropriation for any expenses associated with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, the following:* > > *ITEM FISCAL YEAR* > *NO. 2025-2026* > *(01) FEDERAL FUNDS AWARDED DIRECTLY TO AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, CITIES AND COUNTIES $2,000,000,000* > *(02) FEDERAL FUNDS AWARDED TO AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, CITIES, AND COUNTIES 1,000,000,000* > *TOTAL AMOUNT APPROPRIATED $3,000,000,000"* ### Surrounding context — partial Section 34 and Section 36 The same page also includes the tail of **Section 34** (the CARES Appropriation, $5,000,000 for FY2025-2026) and the head of **Section 36** (the **Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act of 2021** appropriation, $3,500,000,000 for FY2025-2026): > *"year ending June 30, 2026, the following:* > *ITEM FISCAL YEAR* > *NO. 2025-2026* > *(01) C.A.R.E.S. APPROPRIATION $5,000,000"* (Section 34 tail) > > *"SECTION 36. APPROPRIATION - INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT & JOBS ACT OF 2021. There is hereby appropriated, to the Department of Finance and Administration - Disbursing Officer, to be payable from various funds, for providing various state agencies, constitutional offices, and institutions with appropriation for any expenses associated with the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act of 2021 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, the following: / ITEM FISCAL YEAR / NO. 2025-2026 / (01) FEDERAL FUNDS AWARDED TO AGENCIES, DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, CITIES AND COUNTIES $3,500,000,000"* Header line at the bottom: *"14 04-10-2025 16:59:30 JAP008"* — bill-printing metadata. ## Key takeaways - **HB 1202 §35 is the FY2025-2026 ARPA pass-through appropriation** — $3 billion total, divided $2B "directly awarded" and $1B "awarded" to agencies/departments/institutions/cities/counties. The appropriation is made to the **Department of Finance and Administration – Disbursing Officer**, which then distributes the funds to specific agencies. - **The ASP-Leonardo procurement's fund/WBS code `A.0960.ARPERR` is the ASP-specific ARPA-pass-through line item.** The Disbursing Officer–to–ASP transfer mechanism is not documented in the production itself, but the appropriation chain runs: federal ARPA → US Treasury → State of Arkansas → DFA Disbursing Officer → ASP. The line code `ARPERR` is most-likely an abbreviated AASIS fund identifier reading something like "ARP-ERR" (ARP = American Rescue Plan; ERR = a project / sub-account code), or "ARPER R" with the R as a roman or budget-fund letter. The full expansion is not visible in this batch. - **Inclusion of the excerpt in the production is itself documentary evidence.** The Fiscal Section included a copy of the appropriation text in the procurement file — alongside the term contract, POs, invoice, quote, and procurement request form — apparently as the statutory justification for the funding code. This is structurally parallel to [[Pulaski County]]'s inclusion of [[A.C.A. § 27-52-110 — County Automated Enforcement Device Statute]] in its Flock contract file: both are state-agency fiscal-record-keeping practices that include the underlying statutory anchor alongside the operational documents. - **The excerpt is from the *engrossed* bill**, not the final enrolled Act. The three engrossment dates (3/12, 4/1, 4/10) show successive committee/floor amendments. **Resolved 2026-06-05 evening:** HB 1202 was enrolled and approved by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on April 22, 2025 as **Act 1006 of 2025** (primary public record, [Act 1006 of 2025 (HB 1202) — DFA Disbursing Officer Appropriation](../../../../web%20archive/2026-06-05/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-1006-of-2025-hb-1202-dfa-disbursing-officer-appropriation.md)). The final enrolled § 35 text is **identical** to the 04/10/2025 H3 engrossment included in the ASP file — no further amendments altered § 35 between April 10 and Senate passage April 15. House vote was 96-0 (April 14); Senate vote was 32-0 (April 15); the bill passed with an emergency clause making it effective July 1, 2025. - **The companion appropriations on the same page reveal the federal-funds ecosystem.** ARPA ($3B), CARES ($5M), and Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act ($3.5B) are presented as parallel Section appropriations to the DFA Disbursing Officer. The IIJA appropriation is dwarfed by ARPA and by IIJA respectively. *Observation:* ARPA money is the Arkansas budget's largest single federal-pass-through line in this engrossment. ## Cross-references - [[ARPA Pass-Through Funding (Arkansas)]] — the concept page anchoring this excerpt. - [[Term Contract 4600055190 and PO 4502235324 — Initial Leonardo ELSAG Buy]] — the procurement funded under the ARPA appropriation. - [[PO 4502265167 and Invoice 55924ELSAG — Additional ELSAG Cameras]] — the smaller PO under the same funding line. - [[A.C.A. § 27-52-110 — County Automated Enforcement Device Statute]] — parallel example of a state agency including statutory text in its contract / procurement file alongside the operational documents. ## Open questions - ~~**HB 1202's enactment status.**~~ **Resolved 2026-06-05 evening:** HB 1202 was enacted as **Act 1006 of 2025**, approved by Governor Sanders 2025-04-22, effective 2025-07-01 per emergency clause (primary public record, [Act 1006 of 2025 (HB 1202) — DFA Disbursing Officer Appropriation](../../../../web%20archive/2026-06-05/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-1006-of-2025-hb-1202-dfa-disbursing-officer-appropriation.md)). - **The DFA Disbursing Officer's distribution mechanism.** How were the ARPA pass-through funds allocated to specific agencies? A separate appropriation act (specific to ASP / DPS), a DFA administrative-allocation letter, or a Legislative Council action? Item 5 (grants) from the ASP Grants Division when it arrives may include the answer. - **Why this excerpt was included.** The Fiscal Section's inclusion of just this one page — Section 35 — versus the full bill suggests the page was extracted as a procurement-file reference. The actual procurement-justification text for `A.0960.ARPERR` may live in a separate document (a budget allocation, an internal DPS memo) that is not in this batch.