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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT OF VACCINE PASSPORTS IN ARKANSAS."
+description: "TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT OF VACCINE PASSPORTS IN ARKANSAS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 615"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 615 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales", "T. Garner"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-31T13:14:06+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-30T19:15:54+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38d0cea3-1ee9-46c3-bc88-2d9f2adc148e"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "8bed2deddce0eb6d3754f852f9e2827498487fb7a418f6eddc57c8a944fe7e8b"
+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 615 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT THE REQUIREMENT OF VACCINE PASSPORTS IN ARKANSAS.
+
+## 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%2FSB615-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 615** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB615.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **23–8** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gonzales — primary (person)
+- T. Garner — primary (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-31T13:14:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-31T18:30:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-15T19:09:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-19T18:36:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-19T18:36:52+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-19T20:47:11+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-20T19:52:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-20T19:53:09+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-04-20T22:24:39+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-04-20T23:13:29+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22T22:43:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-26T19:28:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26T19:28:06+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-26T22:50:36+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-26T22:50:39+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-27T13:35:05+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-27T13:35:07+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-30T19:15:54+00:00** Notification that SB615 is now Act 1030 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38d0cea3-1ee9-46c3-bc88-2d9f2adc148e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+