---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Arkansas SB 158 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-20T18:31:49+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:09:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80e44ad0-0abc-44d0-b857-f73220eb5e37"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "16dc29db29b2d49fc56c27bf2b5caf5436fcdea0f98be3993a11161d5a7c685f"
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 158 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION - PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND 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%2FSB158-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB158-S2.pdf)
3. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB158-S3.pdf)
4. **Amendment S4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB158-S4.pdf)
5. **SB 158** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB158.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20T18:31:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-20T19:28:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:33:33+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-26T14:33:43+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:15:36+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:15:50+00:00** Re-referred to Joint Budget Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T19:47:06+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-03-22T21:29:51+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-22T21:30:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-22T21:30:16+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14T20:35:52+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
- **2021-04-14T20:37:51+00:00** Amendment read 1st time, Rules Suspended, read 2nd time adopted, Ordered Engrossed. Amendment #3
- **2021-04-14T21:52:17+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-14T21:52:27+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T20:18:21+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 4
- **2021-04-19T20:18:43+00:00** Amendment # 4 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-19T21:27:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T21:27:50+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20T18:13:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T23:37:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T23:37:14+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-21T23:37:15+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-22T00:22:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-22T00:22:36+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-22T19:51:22+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-04-22T19:51:23+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-04-22T19:51:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T19:51:25+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-22T19:51:26+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2021-04-22T20:48:49+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-22T20:48:55+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T20:49:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-23T20:49:26+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:09:55+00:00** Notification that SB158 is now Act 1006 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80e44ad0-0abc-44d0-b857-f73220eb5e37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).