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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO EXEMPT UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS FROM INCOME TAX DURING A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO EXEMPT UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS FROM INCOME TAX DURING A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 236"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 236 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang", "Jett"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-01-28T18:15:19+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-01T20:06:50+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/144a028c-4dc2-4413-ae1f-cf8737c4a29a"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "71b1e3a7a8b823b17ef4d8907d6296d569f7c9223f366301b0d2bbb525728d0b"
+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 236 (2021) — TO EXEMPT UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS FROM INCOME TAX DURING A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## 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%2FSB236-H1.pdf)
+2. **SB 236** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB236.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–2** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. Dismang — primary (person)
+- Jett — primary (person)
+- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Hendren — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Chesterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Eads — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Pitsch — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
+- Rice — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Teague — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-28T18:15:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-28T20:10:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-03T19:19:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-04T19:26:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-04T19:27:16+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-04T19:27:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-02-04T21:48:45+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-02-04T22:33:57+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-09T22:01:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-10T14:33:52+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-02-10T14:34:02+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-02-10T17:00:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-22T19:37:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-22T19:38:00+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-22T19:38:15+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-02-23T00:55:46+00:00** Return from the House as passed, as amended #1
+- **2021-02-23T19:32:07+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-02-23T19:41:01+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-02-23T19:41:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-23T19:41:24+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-23T19:41:31+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-02-24T21:45:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-01T20:06:50+00:00** Notification that SB236 is now Act 154 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/144a028c-4dc2-4413-ae1f-cf8737c4a29a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+