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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO BE KNOWN AS THE \"JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE ACT\"."
+description: "TO BE KNOWN AS THE \"JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE ACT\"."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 676"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 676 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Gazaway"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-04-12T21:07:11+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-30T19:19:59+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4eef7b5a-4a23-4867-b206-476fbe713b76"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "65426ac9f9407f92bc63e373d07f71c6117219c0c9ff0de99e27328e7c42f197"
+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 676 (2021) — TO BE KNOWN AS THE "JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE ACT".
+
+## 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%2FSB676-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 676** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB676.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D. Wallace — primary (person)
+- Gazaway — primary (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-04-12T21:07:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-04-12T21:56:26+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-19T13:39:47+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-04-19T13:39:55+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-19T18:10:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-19T18:10:11+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-21T18:22:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-21T21:58:58+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-04-21T21:58:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-21T21:59:20+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-04-21T23:00:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-04-22T00:24:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22T18:22:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-26T19:20:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26T19:20:59+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-26T22:54:05+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-26T22:54:08+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-27T13:38:18+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-27T13:38:23+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-30T19:19:59+00:00** Notification that SB676 is now Act 1036 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4eef7b5a-4a23-4867-b206-476fbe713b76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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