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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015."
+description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 147"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 147 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "Lowery"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-19T18:54:08+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-29T18:14:20+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b05c6983-d2d2-4ead-ac71-2589828b8692"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "e40f003c89ae09424ea6d1a60dd71b1daf4e1cc5b602c77d753abcd95a666156"
+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 147 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015.
+
+## 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%2FSB147-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 147** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB147.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **82–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. English — primary (person)
+- Lowery — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-19T18:54:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-19T20:16:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08T14:39:06+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-02-08T14:39:16+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-02-08T19:13:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-08T19:13:41+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-01T19:19:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-02T19:17:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-02T19:18:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-02T21:07:12+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-02T23:04:15+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`
+- **2021-03-16T18:18:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-18T19:35:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-18T19:35:30+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-18T21:53:10+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-18T21:53:18+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-22T17:48:46+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-22T17:48:53+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-29T18:14:20+00:00** Notification that SB147 is now Act 490 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b05c6983-d2d2-4ead-ac71-2589828b8692`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+