---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS."
description: "TO REQUIRE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 160"
citation: "Arkansas SB 160 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "Vaught"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-20T18:51:15+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T15:01:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b34a959e-43be-4563-a853-0882628b7d0c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d76698c464a09775d4cef6bc192c1e51f87e06344d3bb7c3bb60ba859ccf2a26"
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 160 (2021) — TO REQUIRE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

## 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%2FSB160-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB160-S2.pdf)
3. **Amendment S3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB160-S3.pdf)
4. **Amendment S4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB160-S4.pdf)
5. **SB 160** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB160.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Godfrey — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Hendren — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20T18:51:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-20T19:39:05+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T15:29:43+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-21T15:29:52+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-21T19:40:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-21T19:41:45+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:34:09+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-01-26T14:34:18+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:16:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:16:39+00:00** Re-referred to Senate Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T14:24:19+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
- **2021-02-04T14:24:27+00:00** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-04T19:05:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-04T19:06:11+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T12:54:51+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 4
- **2021-03-18T12:55:00+00:00** Amendment # 4 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-18T18:06:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-18T18:06:28+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:15:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T18:35:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T18:36:10+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-29T22:57:56+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-29T23:08:56+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`
- **2021-04-01T17:11:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T19:30:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T19:30:22+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:16:34+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:17:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-07T15:40:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-07T15:40:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-12T15:01:47+00:00** Notification that SB160 is now Act 611 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b34a959e-43be-4563-a853-0882628b7d0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).