---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES REAPPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES REAPPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 285"
citation: "Arkansas SB 285 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03T21:15:14+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T20:21:28+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bcdb446-b91e-4ca9-9ef3-85667447c3d9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a33794adc6ddfe454db5ffbf53db1f64f4952c635d9d3a008145d4789076c16f"
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 285 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES REAPPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 285** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB285.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T21:15:14+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T22:08:22+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Joint Budget Committee `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10T19:34:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23T20:33:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T20:33:14+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-23T20:33:15+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-23T22:59:36+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-23T23:17:13+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-24T20:58:37+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-02-24T20:58:38+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-02-24T20:58:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T20:58:40+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-24T20:58:41+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2021-02-24T23:25:46+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T23:25:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T19:58:12+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-25T19:58:19+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-01T20:21:28+00:00** Notification that SB285 is now Act 180 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bcdb446-b91e-4ca9-9ef3-85667447c3d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).