---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - SYSTEM AND VARIOUS DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - SYSTEM AND VARIOUS DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 219"
citation: "Arkansas SB 219 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-27T16:31:20+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T17:58:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6133b7d-41ba-432e-bb7a-404c2a0584dd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7c58c2504edd0ee64a237318d72171ec7d2c96f7848adfdc29016e7e12f69e75"
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 219 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - SYSTEM AND VARIOUS DIVISIONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 219** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB219.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27T16:31:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T20:08:31+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04T19:23:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08T20:16:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-08T20:16:37+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-08T20:16:38+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-08T21:56:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-08T22:46:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-09T20:24:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T20:24:42+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-09T20:24:48+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-09T22:02:48+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-09T22:02:54+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-10T18:27:20+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-10T18:27:35+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-15T17:58:57+00:00** Notification that SB219 is now Act 334 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6133b7d-41ba-432e-bb7a-404c2a0584dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).