---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - DIVISION OF LABOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - DIVISION OF LABOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 121"
citation: "Arkansas SB 121 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14T16:05:13+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-07T16:01:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bea08f4-8110-495d-94f7-932b6a53d0b0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7208dd3460d64965126040d879315f6980b5f5f33d4552f2ce4c52c09a769bdb"
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 121 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - DIVISION OF LABOR 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 S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB121-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 121** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB121.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14T16:05:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-14T19:07:54+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T14:46:45+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-09T14:46:58+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-09T19:25:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-09T19:25:54+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T18:23:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T21:13:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T21:13:21+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-01T21:13:22+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-01T22:01:16+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-01T22:45:49+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-05T19:40:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T19:40:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-05T19:41:01+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-05T21:02:17+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-05T21:02:27+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-06T15:14:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-06T15:14:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-07T16:01:07+00:00** Notification that SB121 is now Act 581 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bea08f4-8110-495d-94f7-932b6a53d0b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).