---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO ATTEND HEARINGS CONCERNING MATTERS HEARD UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989."
description: "TO ALLOW CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO ATTEND HEARINGS CONCERNING MATTERS HEARD UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 166"
citation: "Arkansas SB 166 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-21T16:01:15+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-19T17:53:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08a2a74e-7927-4951-92ea-6d04a7159036"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a12d216fddc28d0ddf25b2e59e1d115b3b74cd817c19f087ab7ff8f42bcd79d7"
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 166 (2021) — TO ALLOW CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO ATTEND HEARINGS CONCERNING MATTERS HEARD UNDER THE ARKANSAS JUVENILE CODE OF 1989.

## 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%2FSB166-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 166** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB166.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

- A. Clark — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21T16:01:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-21T20:17:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T19:19:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11T19:25:22+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-11T19:25:38+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-11T21:51:46+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T18:27:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T18:27:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-15T20:52:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-15T22:06:14+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07T20:52:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-08T19:48:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:48:57+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-08T21:32:02+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T21:32:09+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-12T14:37:02+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-12T14:37:09+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-19T17:53:10+00:00** Notification that SB166 is now Act 738 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08a2a74e-7927-4951-92ea-6d04a7159036`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).