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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE A STUDY OF THE BEST PRACTICES FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE."
+description: "TO CREATE A STUDY OF THE BEST PRACTICES FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 204"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 204 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. Hendren", "McKenzie"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-01-26T19:49:43+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-07T15:56:44+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d8dcb01-d8f1-4f72-82cb-2a713446c68a"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "a2b6b725f317558542942b1e6e6a77660ba764b3cef2c63021b0e10703698326"
+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 204 (2021) — TO CREATE A STUDY OF THE BEST PRACTICES FOR REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB204-H1.pdf)
+2. **SB 204** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB204.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
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. Hendren — primary (person)
+- McKenzie — primary (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-26T19:49:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-26T20:19:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-10T19:14:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-15T18:23:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-15T18:23:52+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-15T20:52:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-15T22:06:26+00:00** 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`
+- **2021-03-29T22:27:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-30T18:06:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-30T18:07:00+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-30T18:25:33+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-31T19:05:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-31T19:06:06+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-03-31T21:40:48+00:00** Returned from the House as passed, as amended #1.
+- **2021-04-01T18:28:47+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-01T18:29:03+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-01T18:29:10+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-04-01T18:29:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-01T18:29:20+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-05T15:24:27+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-05T15:24:34+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-07T15:56:44+00:00** Notification that SB204 is now Act 574 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d8dcb01-d8f1-4f72-82cb-2a713446c68a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+