---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE HIGHER EDUCATION UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE HIGHER EDUCATION UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 345"
citation: "Arkansas SB 345 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Wooten"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-22T20:04:50+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:14:50+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b15c03c-fd27-4f20-a118-682d24b25547"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d2b8fd673b7ecfacfe6879ac7ce6920a0ed391de6b23ed18df8439aa69b0c16a"
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 345 (2021) — TO AMEND THE HIGHER EDUCATION UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 345** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB345.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Wooten — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22T20:04:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T20:53:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23T21:17:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on calendar.
- **2021-02-23T21:17:47+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T19:15:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-15T19:30:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T19:30:17+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-15T19:30:18+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-15T21:02:35+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-15T22:07:35+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`
- **2021-03-15T22:16:51+00:00** Re-referred to Reassign to Transfer to the Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T19:28:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:28:30+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-18T19:28:37+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:07:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:07:02+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:57:05+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:57:14+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:14:50+00:00** Notification that SB345 is now Act 496 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b15c03c-fd27-4f20-a118-682d24b25547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).