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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COVERAGE FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING."
+description: "TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COVERAGE FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 309"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 309 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "L. Johnson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-09T19:29:15+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-21T17:13:17+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc18f4c6-8093-49ee-9591-96e237295255"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "a520141d23c07a66900259eee797009e3098fed34e9682b309c242cfca579ae2"
+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 309 (2021) — TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COVERAGE FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING.
+
+## 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%2FSB309-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB309-S1.pdf)
+3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB309-S2.pdf)
+4. **SB 309** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB309.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Irvin — primary (person)
+- L. Johnson — primary (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Eads — cosponsor (person)
+- Love — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- Magie — cosponsor (person)
+- Murdock — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
+- Teague — cosponsor (person)
+- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-09T19:29:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-09T21:23:31+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02T14:34:29+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-03-02T14:34:37+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-02T19:11:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-02T19:16:28+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-11T23:55:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-15T18:21:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-15T18:21:49+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-15T19:45:07+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-16T18:33:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-16T18:34:17+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-16T20:39:09+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-16T21:53:27+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23T13:35:42+00:00** Re-referred to reassign to transfer to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31T16:52:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-01T18:06:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-01T18:06:58+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-01T18:45:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-06T19:20:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-06T19:20:39+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-04-06T22:44:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1.
+- **2021-04-06T23:15:44+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-13T22:31:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-15T18:50:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-15T18:50:05+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-15T18:50:30+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-04-15T18:51:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-15T18:51:30+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-19T14:37:47+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-19T14:37:52+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-21T17:13:17+00:00** Notification that SB309 is now Act 779 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc18f4c6-8093-49ee-9591-96e237295255`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+