---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE, CONTRIBUTIONS AND REPORTING; TO REENACT THE REQUIREMENT TO FILE A STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INTEREST; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990 AND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE, CONTRIBUTIONS AND REPORTING; TO REENACT THE REQUIREMENT TO FILE A STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INTEREST; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990 AND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 138"
citation: "Arkansas SB 138 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T15:51:21+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-08T18:55:16+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a60cd017-a75c-41f5-80e7-58630cf2a0d8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ad211a0aa371a244411daa8d22c82b722605ee9de384e10319333c962d53ed48"
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 138 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE, CONTRIBUTIONS AND REPORTING; TO REENACT THE REQUIREMENT TO FILE A STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL INTEREST; AND TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990 AND INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996.

## 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%2FSB138-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 138** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB138.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–2** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T15:51:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T20:10:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T23:14:27+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08T14:38:32+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-08T14:38:42+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-08T19:12:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-08T19:13:01+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T22:30:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-10T19:31:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T19:31:24+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-10T22:15:09+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-10T23:32:12+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T18:42:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-25T20:09:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-25T20:09:13+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-25T22:25:25+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-25T22:25:35+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-01T19:10:25+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-01T19:10:26+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-08T18:55:16+00:00** Notification that SB138 is now Act 254 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a60cd017-a75c-41f5-80e7-58630cf2a0d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).