---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE FAIR MORTGAGE LENDING ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE FAIR MORTGAGE LENDING ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 149"
citation: "Arkansas SB 149 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang", "Maddox"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T19:01:31+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T16:38:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c539493e-f367-448f-b1f5-e1c793bfa219"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6ce43dae5643257b5edb5308eb3a80d951118962a002c7593c7cf24aaad7f509"
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 149 (2021) — TO AMEND THE FAIR MORTGAGE LENDING ACT.

## 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%2FSB149-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 149** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB149.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)
- Maddox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T19:01:31+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T20:17:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T21:36:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03T19:25:48+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-03-03T19:25:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-03T19:26:01+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-03T20:11:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-03T20:11:47+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-03-03T20:11:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03T20:11:49+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-03T21:59:56+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-03T22:47:13+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T18:06:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-29T20:40:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T20:40:58+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T22:38:19+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T22:38:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T15:02:14+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-30T15:02:20+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05T16:38:21+00:00** Notification that SB149 is now Act 531 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c539493e-f367-448f-b1f5-e1c793bfa219`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).