---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY THE EXEMPTIONS OF CERTAIN ENTITIES FROM INSURANCE REGULATION."
description: "TO MODIFY THE EXEMPTIONS OF CERTAIN ENTITIES FROM INSURANCE REGULATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "Arkansas SB 168 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-21T16:31:48+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T23:36:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77e4f1b5-795f-4e3f-9ab2-4c4b42778d0f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "08272a3f063b6b360070333042aa50f10b1c7317c5a55d23472e50fea561ca1b"
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 168 (2021) — TO MODIFY THE EXEMPTIONS OF CERTAIN ENTITIES FROM INSURANCE REGULATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 168** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB168.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gonzales — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21T16:31:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-21T20:20:54+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T22:13:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-10T19:33:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T19:33:12+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-10T22:15:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-10T23:32:30+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`
- **2021-03-10T19:46:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T20:04:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T20:04:29+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-11T22:35:24+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-11T22:35:35+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-15T16:46:58+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-15T16:49:48+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-17T23:36:22+00:00** Notification that SB168 is now Act 381 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77e4f1b5-795f-4e3f-9ab2-4c4b42778d0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).