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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING REPRESENTATION OF A CORPORATE OR BUSINESS ENTITY IN A CLAIM OR ACTION FILED WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMMISSION."
+description: "CONCERNING REPRESENTATION OF A CORPORATE OR BUSINESS ENTITY IN A CLAIM OR ACTION FILED WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMMISSION."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 281"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 281 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales", "T. Garner"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-03T19:12:58+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-29T18:14:40+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be6aa5aa-0f8e-4f58-b179-81cf817e2fa5"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "7b07a569d9f7204b04d35cd1317d320301d3644a3f93da6abbb21a3cf6e4c9c0"
+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 281 (2021) — CONCERNING REPRESENTATION OF A CORPORATE OR BUSINESS ENTITY IN A CLAIM OR ACTION FILED WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMMISSION.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB 281** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB281.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gonzales — primary (person)
+- T. Garner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-03T19:12:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-03T21:07:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-24T02:00:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-24T19:36:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-24T19:36:24+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-02-24T22:53:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-02-25T23:26:55+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17T22:51:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-18T19:59:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-18T19:59:47+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-18T21:51:17+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-18T21:51:26+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-22T17:54:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-22T17:54:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-29T18:14:40+00:00** Notification that SB281 is now Act 494 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be6aa5aa-0f8e-4f58-b179-81cf817e2fa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+