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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT."
+description: "TO CREATE THE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 354"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 354 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barker", "Irvin"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-23T14:18:55+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:45+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33d7ce5f-e9ab-4066-b768-a256ac1e2ef9"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "f9be36e1ba6c82c5785dd7c1c5299074b3ba955184f68ba075f225584d61233a"
+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 354 (2021) — TO CREATE THE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB354-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 354** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB354.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–18** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **28–7** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barker — primary (person)
+- Irvin — primary (person)
+- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Furman — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Womack — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-23T14:18:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-23T20:25:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-08T23:15:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-09T19:22:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-09T19:22:58+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-09T20:56:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-10T20:25:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-10T20:26:15+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-10T22:32:12+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-10T23:49:09+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-18T18:09:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-22T19:16:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-22T19:16:56+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-22T21:34:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-22T21:34:06+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-23T15:58:11+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-23T15:58:17+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-29T18:11:45+00:00** Notification that SB354 is now Act 461 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33d7ce5f-e9ab-4066-b768-a256ac1e2ef9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+