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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE NAME OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY; TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY; TO AMEND THE BOARD OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY MEMBERS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE NAME OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY; TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY; TO AMEND THE BOARD OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY MEMBERS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 116"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 116 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Womack"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-13T20:10:04+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-02-01T22:14:23+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9974b121-804e-43c9-b59d-9aaeb9f31e83"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "753dfb9416d39152c9881b420b8cd675d5e694e9d8c5a6984168b6ca614bac30"
+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 (2021) — TO AMEND THE NAME OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY; TO ABOLISH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY; TO AMEND THE BOARD OF ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY MEMBERS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB 116** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB116.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Clark — primary (person)
+- Womack — primary (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Teague — cosponsor (person)
+- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-13T20:10:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-13T20:45:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-20T20:39:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-01-21T19:30:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-21T19:31:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-01-21T19:32:57+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-01-21T19:39:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-01-21T19:53:54+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-26T19:26:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-27T20:22:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-27T20:22:21+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-01-27T20:22:28+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-01-27T22:51:24+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-01-27T22:51:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-01-28T15:38:16+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-01-28T15:38:22+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-02-01T22:14:23+00:00** Notification that SB116 is now Act 18 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9974b121-804e-43c9-b59d-9aaeb9f31e83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+