---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REORGANIZE THE RIVERSIDE VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL INTO THE CORRECTIONS SCHOOL SYSTEM."
description: "TO REORGANIZE THE RIVERSIDE VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL INTO THE CORRECTIONS SCHOOL SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 265"
citation: "Arkansas SB 265 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crawford", "Irvin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03T16:37:26+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:14:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecd2067a-4764-44eb-82b4-394b598a0e21"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "59833cc42308c4cf7e93fac3477d02bb6c91e9807b25b3e22cb28b2d83d3b508"
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 265 (2021) — TO REORGANIZE THE RIVERSIDE VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL INTO THE CORRECTIONS SCHOOL SYSTEM.

## 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%2FSB265-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 265** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB265.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crawford — primary (person)
- Irvin — primary (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T16:37:26+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T19:39:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23T14:42:14+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-23T14:42:22+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-23T19:33:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-23T19:33:39+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T22:27:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04T19:38:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04T19:38:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-04T22:12:49+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-04T22:53:59+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`
- **2021-03-18T18:09:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T19:05:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:05:11+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:33:31+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:33:40+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T15:57:33+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-23T15:57:35+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:14:55+00:00** Notification that SB265 is now Act 497 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecd2067a-4764-44eb-82b4-394b598a0e21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).