---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON VETERANS AFFAIRS."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON VETERANS AFFAIRS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Arkansas SB 4 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Garner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-11-15"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ff048ca-e70e-4d0e-9873-dc14b7b082bb"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b7d2a0e72159eeb29feac08775be0c7152b85da992f75ebc7dc47325d9fb0b0c"
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 4 (2019) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE STUDY ON VETERANS AFFAIRS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB4-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 4** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB4.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Expunge SB4 Vote Passed — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- T. Garner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-15** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-23** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-23** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-01-23** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-01-23** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** EXPUNGED
- **2019-02-27** Motion to Expunge SB4 Vote Passed
- **2019-02-27** The vote by which SB4 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-02-27** Re-referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-07** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-03-11** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-11** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-20** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-20** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-03-20** Rules suspended.
- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-25** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-25** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** Notification that SB4 is now Act 551 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ff048ca-e70e-4d0e-9873-dc14b7b082bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).