---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROVED CLAIMS."
description: "AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROVED CLAIMS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Arkansas SB 178 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-22T20:04:53+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-14T15:09:25+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9e44256-21d0-4462-9a44-ef203e35572d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4b8e76e392a8dddf511d55476b32345329774fba3546848e2bbaa0d424eb5804"
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 178 (2021) — AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF APPROVED CLAIMS.

## 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%2FSB178-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 178** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB178.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-22T20:04:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T19:18:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T21:54:08+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-29T21:54:22+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-29T22:30:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T22:31:22+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01T18:21:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07T20:38:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T20:38:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-07T20:38:58+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:03:59+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-07T22:22:36+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-08T19:21:11+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-04-08T19:21:12+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-04-08T19:21:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:21:14+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-08T19:21:15+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2021-04-08T21:32:40+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T21:32:46+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-12T14:37:24+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-12T14:39:24+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-14T15:09:25+00:00** Notification that SB178 is now Act 698 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9e44256-21d0-4462-9a44-ef203e35572d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).