---
type: "Bill"
title: "REPEALING A STATUTE PROHIBITING THE POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS; AND MAKING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS."
description: "REPEALING A STATUTE PROHIBITING THE POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS; AND MAKING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 357"
citation: "Arkansas SB 357 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Boyd"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T18:26:05+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:09:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42f60b64-c1f0-4678-9159-ae8073a80443"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "010596eb431716ab8561b87c010b97c75bc860a7ac4b02bc27ef344e7ce8770d"
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 357 (2021) — REPEALING A STATUTE PROHIBITING THE POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS; AND MAKING TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

## 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%2FSB357-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 357** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB357.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T18:26:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T20:23:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T20:24:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03T20:24:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-03T20:25:24+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-03T20:47:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T19:40:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04T19:40:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-04T22:13:07+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-04T22:54:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T23:30:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T19:49:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:50:06+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:34:28+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:34:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T15:58:58+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-23T15:59:08+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:09:58+00:00** Notification that SB357 is now Act 433 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42f60b64-c1f0-4678-9159-ae8073a80443`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).