---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE APPLICABILITY AND ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS OF THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - PART 2."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE APPLICABILITY AND ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS OF THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - PART 2."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 126"
citation: "Arkansas SB 126 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Sturch", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14T18:50:36+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-10T18:57:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83594c78-771a-4eea-a364-577e15a870a4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "820163091912c04ec9c53a1063f036aa1cd64b3a297862b6c12a4cdbccd652e2"
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 126 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE APPLICABILITY AND ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS OF THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - PART 2.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 126** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB126.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Sturch — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14T18:50:36+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-14T19:10:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25T21:00:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26T19:22:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26T19:22:29+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-26T21:00:15+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-26T22:35:27+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T17:42:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03T19:52:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T19:52:19+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-03T21:21:27+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-03T21:21:33+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-03T23:27:27+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-03T23:27:31+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-10T18:57:38+00:00** Notification that SB126 is now Act 80 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83594c78-771a-4eea-a364-577e15a870a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).