---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1081"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1081 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-05T21:06:28+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-28T19:49:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a01b5293-3d0d-4627-bdd8-b5c9094b2755"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8f4855e70323591a2eb3bfefb548d05b20f6114029bb85353ee75a8ee986ca11"
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 HB 1081 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1081-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1081** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1081.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T21:06:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:34:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T16:24:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T18:25:32+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-26T18:25:40+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-26T20:15:34+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-26T20:28:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T20:28:46+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-26T23:00:30+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-26T23:00:35+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-27T15:36:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T15:36:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-27T15:36:39+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T15:53:53+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T15:53:55+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-28T16:29:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-28T19:49:33+00:00** Notification that HB1081 is now Act 996 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a01b5293-3d0d-4627-bdd8-b5c9094b2755`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).