---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ALTERNATE RETIREMENT PLANS."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ALTERNATE RETIREMENT PLANS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 235"
citation: "Arkansas SB 235 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beck", "J. English"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-27T21:53:44+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T21:02:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab4d56fc-d51c-475e-bbd5-90511eaeefb5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a8a624210ed99ef9c5b215ad19c15e7eaad8c3eac2620f53a7e8430be89b76b1"
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 235 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING ALTERNATE RETIREMENT PLANS.

## 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%2FSB235-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 235** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB235.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beck — primary (person)
- J. English — primary (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27T21:53:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T22:48:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23T14:40:47+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-23T14:40:54+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-23T19:22:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-23T19:22:35+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T21:51:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16T18:21:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T18:21:28+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-16T20:38:58+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-16T21:53:12+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T18:09:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31T19:56:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T19:56:23+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:37:09+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:37:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-01T15:55:33+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-01T15:55:38+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05T21:02:00+00:00** Notification that SB235 is now Act 545 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab4d56fc-d51c-475e-bbd5-90511eaeefb5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).