---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING REPRESENTATION OF A CORPORATE OR BUSINESS ENTITY IN A CLAIM OR ACTION FILED WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMMISSION."
description: "CONCERNING REPRESENTATION OF A CORPORATE OR BUSINESS ENTITY IN A CLAIM OR ACTION FILED WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMMISSION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 281"
citation: "Arkansas SB 281 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales", "T. Garner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03T19:12:58+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:14:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be6aa5aa-0f8e-4f58-b179-81cf817e2fa5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7b07a569d9f7204b04d35cd1317d320301d3644a3f93da6abbb21a3cf6e4c9c0"
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 281 (2021) — CONCERNING REPRESENTATION OF A CORPORATE OR BUSINESS ENTITY IN A CLAIM OR ACTION FILED WITH THE ARKANSAS STATE CLAIMS COMMISSION.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 281** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB281.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzales — primary (person)
- T. Garner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T19:12:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T21:07:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T02:00:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24T19:36:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T19:36:24+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-24T22:53:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-25T23:26:55+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T22:51:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:59:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:59:47+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T21:51:17+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T21:51:26+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:54:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:54:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:14:40+00:00** Notification that SB281 is now Act 494 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be6aa5aa-0f8e-4f58-b179-81cf817e2fa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).