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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSUMER GUIDE ACT."
+description: "TO CREATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSUMER GUIDE ACT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 397"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 397 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "Speaks"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-25T16:55:13+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-05T17:17:50+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96511a2e-ef93-4810-a194-a9f80db61b4e"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "fa8180c60c54647b434f24e3aeae0602e2b8f628ee5559a03f01931e43b8967d"
+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 397 (2021) — TO CREATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSUMER GUIDE 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%2FSB397-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 397** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB397.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Irvin — primary (person)
+- Speaks — primary (person)
+- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-25T16:55:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-25T19:27:57+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-08T19:32:38+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-03-08T19:33:14+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-08T19:33:43+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-08T19:34:09+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-08T23:20:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-09T19:35:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-09T19:36:09+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-09T21:32:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-09T22:45:30+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`
+- **2021-03-23T18:11:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-30T18:25:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-30T18:26:00+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-30T19:36:16+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-30T19:36:22+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-31T17:25:41+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-31T17:25:45+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-05T17:17:50+00:00** Notification that SB397 is now Act 539 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96511a2e-ef93-4810-a194-a9f80db61b4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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