---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Arkansas SB 305 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Holcomb"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09T15:33:54+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/452c4769-cfb3-4911-aba0-f1398cd27b8a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a44b04adef159398ad068a7a9ad0699365ae891ac0a2da3557c8063a590c040b"
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 305 (2021) — TO AMEND THE AWARD PROCEDURE FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS.

## 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%2FSB305-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 305** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB305.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **81–6** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Holcomb — primary (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09T15:33:54+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-09T19:41:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T14:03:56+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-11T14:04:03+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-11T19:06:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-11T19:07:03+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T23:28:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-15T18:29:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T18:29:29+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-15T20:52:28+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-15T22:06:56+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`
- **2021-03-17T22:52:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T20:02:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T20:02:49+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:04:20+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:04:28+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:55:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:55:42+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:11:20+00:00** Notification that SB305 is now Act 440 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/452c4769-cfb3-4911-aba0-f1398cd27b8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).