---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO INTEGRATE AND INCORPORATE THE PROVISIONS OF ACTS OF 2017 INTO ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 98, ALSO KNOWN AS THE \"ARKANSAS MEDICAL MARIJUANA AMENDMENT OF 2016\"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO INTEGRATE AND INCORPORATE THE PROVISIONS OF ACTS OF 2017 INTO ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 98, ALSO KNOWN AS THE \"ARKANSAS MEDICAL MARIJUANA AMENDMENT OF 2016\"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2017S1"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "Arkansas SB 2 (2017S1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-05-01"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f625f440-b1c8-44aa-ae76-705a9eb307dc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/dfadooas/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "34fc74e91f98953e9ab0bdee1562da7b363d39259ef8d76d4046c1c90e5a2828"
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 2 (2017S1) — TO INTEGRATE AND INCORPORATE THE PROVISIONS OF ACTS OF 2017 INTO ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION, AMENDMENT 98, ALSO KNOWN AS THE "ARKANSAS MEDICAL MARIJUANA AMENDMENT OF 2016"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB 2** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2017S1/Public/SB2.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-05-01** Filed `introduction`
- **2017-05-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-02** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2017-05-02** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2017-05-02** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2017-05-02** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-02** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-03** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2017-05-03** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2017-05-03** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2017-05-03** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2017-05-03** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2017-05-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-04** Notification that SB2 is now Act 8 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f625f440-b1c8-44aa-ae76-705a9eb307dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).