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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ALLOW ARKANSAS CORPORATIONS AND ARKANSAS BANKS TO HOLD ANNUAL OR SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETINGS REMOTELY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO ALLOW ARKANSAS CORPORATIONS AND ARKANSAS BANKS TO HOLD ANNUAL OR SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETINGS REMOTELY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 11"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 11 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D. Sullivan", "Gonzales"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-12-16T22:42:40+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-08T18:54:46+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35781f6f-ec40-46ba-94dc-29740420f712"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "7651b4b5c43f28a5a01bcda890079725ae21313f152f21fcd8c26de0e84a83cc"
+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 11 (2021) — TO ALLOW ARKANSAS CORPORATIONS AND ARKANSAS BANKS TO HOLD ANNUAL OR SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETINGS REMOTELY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB11-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 11** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB11.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D. Sullivan — primary (person)
+- Gonzales — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-16T22:42:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-11T21:13:30+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-02T14:35:33+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-02-02T14:35:44+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-02-02T19:08:41+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-02T19:08:55+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-04T21:35:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-08T19:36:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-08T19:36:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-08T19:36:51+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-02-08T22:29:28+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-02-08T22:49:58+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-24T17:55:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-25T20:08:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-25T20:08:17+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-25T20:08:26+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-02-25T22:24:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-02-25T22:24:28+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-01T19:10:04+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-01T19:10:05+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-08T18:54:46+00:00** Notification that SB11 is now Act 253 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35781f6f-ec40-46ba-94dc-29740420f712`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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