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+type: "Bill"
+title: "REQUIRING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO PROVIDE ADVICE RELATED TO ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 98."
+description: "REQUIRING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO PROVIDE ADVICE RELATED TO ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 98."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 226"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 226 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["L. Chesterfield"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-01-27T18:59:35+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-13T15:31:15+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1365cae-c289-453c-88f1-590927777b91"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "62779d4f828e86f1cf78213253bd370e28edaa941420e13039c59de04774be0b"
+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 226 (2021) — REQUIRING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO PROVIDE ADVICE RELATED TO ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 98.
+
+## 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%2FSB226-H1.pdf)
+2. **SB 226** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB226.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- L. Chesterfield — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-27T18:59:35+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-27T20:11:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-09T19:38:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-10T19:43:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-10T19:43:49+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-02-10T22:15:34+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-02-10T23:33:09+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-03T19:03:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-04T19:13:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-04T19:13:23+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-04T20:09:48+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-08T20:27:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-08T20:27:45+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-03-08T23:11:55+00:00** Returned from the House as passed, as amended #1.
+- **2021-03-08T23:13:10+00:00** Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06T18:51:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-07T18:40:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-07T18:40:56+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-07T18:41:09+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-04-07T18:41:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-07T18:41:36+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-08T15:54:46+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-08T15:54:49+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-13T15:31:15+00:00** Notification that SB226 is now Act 632 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1365cae-c289-453c-88f1-590927777b91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+