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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILD CARE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
+description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILD CARE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 56"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 56 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-06T17:36:58+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-05T16:34:55+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d60ade6-d523-4f2a-a2b4-9aba27bb8ad4"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "49dea1bfc14299f70c0d375db1626d86593ac1c33a7a9bb8a02f8aa80f0ba780"
+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 56 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF CHILD CARE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.
+
+## 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%2FSB56-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 56** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB56.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-06T17:36:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-11T22:01:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-11T19:36:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-15T19:08:57+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-15T19:09:16+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-15T21:09:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-22T20:08:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-22T20:08:50+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-03-22T20:08:51+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-22T21:04:01+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-22T22:14:26+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-03-23T20:37:25+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
+- **2021-03-23T20:37:26+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
+- **2021-03-23T20:37:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-23T20:37:28+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-03-23T20:37:29+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
+- **2021-03-29T18:24:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-29T18:24:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-30T15:06:42+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-30T15:08:06+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-05T16:34:55+00:00** Notification that SB56 is now Act 527 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d60ade6-d523-4f2a-a2b4-9aba27bb8ad4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+