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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 609"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 609 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "M. Johnson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-29T20:38:11+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-30T19:05:31+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bdae219-cefb-4160-b7f8-759b8fac2a17"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "e7e40d78f2226a87b72bfa0555abf011509287f8c1ad11ba0e16d9ef98beb12b"
+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 609 (2021) — TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## 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%2FSB609-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 609** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB609.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–15** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **25–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bentley — primary (person)
+- M. Johnson — primary (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-29T20:38:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-29T22:35:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-21T13:12:02+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-04-21T13:12:09+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-21T18:17:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-21T18:17:22+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22T02:26:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-22T21:48:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-22T21:49:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-04-22T21:50:36+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-04-22T22:54:32+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-04-23T01:40:58+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`
+- **2021-04-26T17:01:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-27T19:52:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-27T19:52:38+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-04-27T19:52:43+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-27T22:15:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-27T22:15:46+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-27T22:15:49+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-27T22:15:51+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-30T19:05:31+00:00** Notification that SB609 is now Act 1020 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bdae219-cefb-4160-b7f8-759b8fac2a17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+