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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT TO OFFER A HUNTING SAFETY COURSE AS PART OF ITS CURRICULUM."
+description: "TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT TO OFFER A HUNTING SAFETY COURSE AS PART OF ITS CURRICULUM."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 161"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 161 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales", "T. Garner"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-20T19:10:46+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-05T22:05:33+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/598eddf7-50f6-4cbe-a55e-0777fe38c936"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "ce485b8bb997809c87a07cc61c1a8789bb473657d1a6ffc655a4b0ed7716a940"
+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 161 (2021) — TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR A PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT TO OFFER A HUNTING SAFETY COURSE AS PART OF ITS CURRICULUM.
+
+## 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%2FSB161-S1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB161-S2.pdf)
+3. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB161-S3.pdf)
+4. **SB 161** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB161.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–5** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gonzales — primary (person)
+- T. Garner — primary (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-20T19:10:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-20T19:40:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-01T14:27:49+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-02-01T14:27:57+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-02-01T19:08:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-01T19:09:16+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-10T14:36:01+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
+- **2021-02-10T14:36:10+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-02-10T19:13:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-10T19:14:05+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-08T23:14:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-09T19:19:07+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-09T19:21:03+00:00** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-09T20:59:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-10T19:35:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-10T19:35:55+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-10T22:31:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-10T23:47:33+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`
+- **2021-03-23T18:11:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-30T18:26:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-30T18:26:51+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-30T19:35:03+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-30T19:35:10+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-31T17:24:07+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-31T17:24:11+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-05T22:05:33+00:00** Notification that SB161 is now Act 536 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/598eddf7-50f6-4cbe-a55e-0777fe38c936`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+