---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW A STUDENT APPLYING FOR THE ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM OR THE CRITICAL NEEDS MINORITY TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM TO USE HIS OR HER ACT SUPERSCORE."
description: "TO ALLOW A STUDENT APPLYING FOR THE ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM OR THE CRITICAL NEEDS MINORITY TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM TO USE HIS OR HER ACT SUPERSCORE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Arkansas SB 139 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T15:51:39+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T15:05:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81a934f8-dd5e-40a9-b06f-674b9922ed00"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1729e7b739e954114de486758b376b4272359fdbcdb50683db75c670a3ea331a"
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 139 (2021) — TO ALLOW A STUDENT APPLYING FOR THE ARKANSAS GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM OR THE CRITICAL NEEDS MINORITY TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM TO USE HIS OR HER ACT SUPERSCORE.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 139** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB139.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T15:51:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T20:11:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01T18:14:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05T18:28:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T18:29:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:53:43+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-05T22:20:02+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`
- **2021-04-13T18:03:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14T20:45:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T20:45:23+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:02:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:02:46+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T15:42:37+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-15T15:42:44+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-20T15:05:47+00:00** Notification that SB139 is now Act 743 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81a934f8-dd5e-40a9-b06f-674b9922ed00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).