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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON VETERANS AFFAIRS."
+description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON VETERANS AFFAIRS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 4"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 4 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["T. Garner"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2018-11-15"
+last_action: "2019-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ff048ca-e70e-4d0e-9873-dc14b7b082bb"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "b7d2a0e72159eeb29feac08775be0c7152b85da992f75ebc7dc47325d9fb0b0c"
+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 4 (2019) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON VETERANS AFFAIRS.
+
+## 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=SB4-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 4** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Motion to Expunge SB4 Vote Passed — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- T. Garner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-11-15** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-01-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-22** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-01-23** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-23** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-01-23** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-01-23** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-27** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-27** EXPUNGED
+- **2019-02-27** Motion to Expunge SB4 Vote Passed
+- **2019-02-27** The vote by which SB4 Failed to Pass was expunged.
+- **2019-02-27** Re-referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-11** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2019-03-11** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
+- **2019-03-11** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-20** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-20** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-20** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-25** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-03-25** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-26** Notification that SB4 is now Act 551 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ff048ca-e70e-4d0e-9873-dc14b7b082bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+