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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021; AND TO ADVANCE ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES."
+description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021; AND TO ADVANCE ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 638"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 638 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brown", "J. English"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-04-06T18:13:29+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-30T19:16:20+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e03cc500-bc10-409e-8efe-5ab34ef576db"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "0336c36a92a7c8b015616fbeef364b56ad6c844df43ea465cf00f047b076cf12"
+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 638 (2021) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021; AND TO ADVANCE ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES.
+
+## 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%2FSB638-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 638** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB638.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brown — primary (person)
+- J. English — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-04-06T18:13:29+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-04-06T19:29:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-14T13:30:26+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-04-14T13:30:35+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-14T18:11:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-14T18:12:33+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-15T18:16:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-19T18:50:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-19T18:50:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-04-19T22:15:28+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-04-19T23:11:03+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`
+- **2021-04-22T17:48:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-26T19:13:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26T19:13:13+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-26T22:51:21+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-26T22:51:24+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-27T13:36:04+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-27T13:36:07+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-30T19:16:20+00:00** Notification that SB638 is now Act 1031 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e03cc500-bc10-409e-8efe-5ab34ef576db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+