---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ADJUST FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT OFFER CERTAIN TYPES OF READING PRACTICES, INTERVENTIONS, AND CURRICULUM NOT ALIGNED WITH THE SCIENCE OF READING; AND TO CREATE THE EDUCATION OMBUDSMAN."
description: "TO ADJUST FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT OFFER CERTAIN TYPES OF READING PRACTICES, INTERVENTIONS, AND CURRICULUM NOT ALIGNED WITH THE SCIENCE OF READING; AND TO CREATE THE EDUCATION OMBUDSMAN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 349"
citation: "Arkansas SB 349 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Brooks"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-22T21:28:28+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-08T15:53:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9d01469-4574-4c7e-8299-baceedcb7e2f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1a0e3f4b472f81e67776d1016b25c4b18a742a070f1a4a1140ee7c7c62dfc428"
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 349 (2021) — TO ADJUST FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT OFFER CERTAIN TYPES OF READING PRACTICES, INTERVENTIONS, AND CURRICULUM NOT ALIGNED WITH THE SCIENCE OF READING; AND TO CREATE THE EDUCATION OMBUDSMAN.

## 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%2FSB349-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 349** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB349.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **72–15** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22T21:28:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T23:09:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T14:04:59+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-11T14:05:07+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-11T19:07:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-11T19:08:13+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T21:53:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16T18:41:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T18:42:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-16T20:39:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-16T21:54:14+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`
- **2021-03-30T18:12:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31T19:47:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T19:48:04+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:38:14+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:38:17+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-01T15:57:37+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-01T15:57:41+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-08T15:53:44+00:00** Notification that SB349 is now Act 606 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9d01469-4574-4c7e-8299-baceedcb7e2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).