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+type: "Bill"
+title: "REQUIRING AN INMATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO FIRST EXHAUST ALL AVAILABLE ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO FILING A CLAIM UNDER THE ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1993 OR ANY OTHER STATE LAW."
+description: "REQUIRING AN INMATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO FIRST EXHAUST ALL AVAILABLE ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO FILING A CLAIM UNDER THE ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1993 OR ANY OTHER STATE LAW."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 116"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 116 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-16"
+last_action: "2019-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c850fd07-fc50-4056-988e-45c7e110f294"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "6af296c56b460392b674fa1ca51deb40cd340dbb27eda88df5f560ac01159da6"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas SB 116 (2019) — REQUIRING AN INMATE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION TO FIRST EXHAUST ALL AVAILABLE ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO FILING A CLAIM UNDER THE ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1993 OR ANY OTHER STATE LAW.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB116-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 116** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB116.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-16** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-01-16** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-01-28** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-01-28** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2019-01-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-01-29** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-29** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-01-29** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-01-29** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-06** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-02-06** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-02-06** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-19** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-02-19** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-02-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-21** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-26** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-26** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2019-02-26** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 2
+- **2019-02-26** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
+- **2019-02-26** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 & 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-06** House Amendment No. 1 and 2 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2019-03-06** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-06** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-11** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-03-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-13** Notification that SB116 is now Act 444 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c850fd07-fc50-4056-988e-45c7e110f294`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+