---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING UNANTICIPATED DISCRETIONARY FEDERAL FUNDS RELATED TO A STATEWIDE STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING UNANTICIPATED DISCRETIONARY FEDERAL FUNDS RELATED TO A STATEWIDE STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 378"
citation: "Arkansas SB 378 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T20:02:43+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7163e9f3-a9eb-4cec-8a4f-d8e61347cf29"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "529054c4a6a8c2643b648d7769560b5c0097495f5a47c754dd6c3b7f735393a3"
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 378 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING UNANTICIPATED DISCRETIONARY FEDERAL FUNDS RELATED TO A STATEWIDE STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 378** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB378.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T20:02:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T21:41:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T22:45:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04T19:45:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-04T19:45:54+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-04T22:13:16+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-04T22:56:00+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T23:01:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T19:57:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:57:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-22T19:58:02+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:35:29+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:35:35+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T15:59:21+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-23T15:59:27+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:11:40+00:00** Notification that SB378 is now Act 446 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7163e9f3-a9eb-4cec-8a4f-d8e61347cf29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).