---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 354"
citation: "Arkansas SB 354 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barker", "Irvin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T14:18:55+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33d7ce5f-e9ab-4066-b768-a256ac1e2ef9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f9be36e1ba6c82c5785dd7c1c5299074b3ba955184f68ba075f225584d61233a"
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 354 (2021) — TO CREATE THE FAIRNESS IN WOMEN'S SPORTS ACT.

## 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%2FSB354-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 354** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB354.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–18** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barker — primary (person)
- Irvin — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T14:18:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T20:25:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T23:15:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09T19:22:50+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T19:22:58+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-09T20:56:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-10T20:25:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-10T20:26:15+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-10T22:32:12+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-10T23:49:09+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`
- **2021-03-18T18:09:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T19:16:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:16:56+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:34:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:34:06+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T15:58:11+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-23T15:58:17+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:11:45+00:00** Notification that SB354 is now Act 461 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33d7ce5f-e9ab-4066-b768-a256ac1e2ef9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).