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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTION LAWS."
+description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTION LAWS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 498"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 498 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Johnson", "Wing"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-08T20:18:30+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-29T18:05:43+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/866362e1-94d2-4b95-847d-85b5920f18f1"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "271fdec12f6b37a694c8ccfdffb83c5feab7a90c84a0f48000a1fb6267d0ced1"
+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 498 (2021) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTION LAWS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB 498** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB498.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–9** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **26–8** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Wing — primary (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
+- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
+- Rice — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-08T20:18:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-08T23:23:22+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06T22:46:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-07T18:59:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-07T18:59:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-04-07T22:04:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-04-07T22:23:26+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`
+- **2021-04-14T18:08:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-20T19:10:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-20T19:10:53+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-20T22:47:33+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-20T22:47:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-21T16:28:40+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-21T16:28:46+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-29T18:05:43+00:00** Notification that SB498 is now Act 952 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/866362e1-94d2-4b95-847d-85b5920f18f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+