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JBC-Personnel approves amendment adding Rep. Wheaton and passes Senate Bill 392 pay plan
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee — Personnel approved an amendment adding Rep. Wheaton as co-sponsor and voted to pass Senate Bill 392, a $139 million classification and compensation pay plan affecting roughly 16,600 positions; OPM staff answered member questions before the vote.
The Joint Budget Committee — Personnel voted to adopt an amendment adding Representative Wheaton as a co-sponsor and then approved Senate Bill 392, a classification-and-compensation pay plan, during a brief session on Oct. 12, 2025.
Representative Jean asked for confirmation about the plan’s cost and scope: “I want to verify now that this is the last version. We're still at 139,000,000, correct?” Committee members were told the figure and the scope were accurate during the question period with Office of Personnel Management staff at the table to answer details.
The pay plan was described as covering approximately 16,600 positions. Representative Wooten called the package “a historic day for the employees of the state of Arkansas,” and thanked OPM staff and the governor’s office for their work to develop the market-oriented plan.
Committee members adopted the amendment to add Representative Wheaton as a co-sponsor by voice vote, and then voted “do pass as amended” on Senate Bill 392; the chair declared both motions carried after members answered “aye.” The meeting record does not show a roll-call tally or the names of makers and seconders for those motions.
OPM staff were available for questions raised from a prior meeting; committee members asked only a few clarifying questions and offered public thanks for the months-long effort to compile the pay plan.
The committee then moved on to the next agenda item.
