---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS PANS/PANDAS ADVISORY COUNCIL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS PANS/PANDAS ADVISORY COUNCIL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 212"
citation: "Arkansas SB 212 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-26T20:34:12+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:09:05+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a95b39ac-bc85-4dc3-a9c2-f9dcb1153603"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d40a6111d55a69fe84355aade0d71730bc56e0a68c0506d259737c9ad02e1446"
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 212 (2021) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS PANS/PANDAS ADVISORY COUNCIL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB212-H1.pdf)
2. **SB 212** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB212.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26T20:34:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-26T21:09:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01T21:59:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-02T19:37:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02T19:38:42+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-02T19:39:02+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-02T20:18:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-02T22:15:29+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T01:10:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T14:42:08+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-11T14:42:11+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-11T16:37:42+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T19:35:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T19:36:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-15T19:36:27+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2021-03-15T21:32:08+00:00** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2021-03-15T21:32:20+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T22:51:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18T06:14:01+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-18T18:14:03+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2021-03-18T18:14:17+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-03-18T18:14:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T18:14:49+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-18T18:14:58+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:45:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:45:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:09:05+00:00** Notification that SB212 is now Act 430 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a95b39ac-bc85-4dc3-a9c2-f9dcb1153603`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).