---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 38"
citation: "Arkansas SB 38 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-05T21:21:34+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T17:44:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/430d3277-aac3-49c3-b9e8-ddd8c1fa3e1f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b844237fb86234f29b9483b69ee1edd7841dc10cc9a62687a5b109125871b7b4"
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 38 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF AGING, ADULT, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## 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%2FSB38-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB38-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 38** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB38.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T21:21:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T21:45:51+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01T20:37:17+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-01T20:37:39+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-01T21:25:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-01T21:26:00+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T19:06:25+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-03-15T19:06:36+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-15T21:03:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T21:05:00+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T18:32:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22T20:08:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T20:08:50+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-22T20:08:51+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-22T21:03:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-22T22:13:49+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-23T20:37:25+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-03-23T20:37:26+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-03-23T20:37:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-23T20:37:28+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-23T20:37:29+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2021-03-29T18:21:57+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T18:22:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T15:04:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-30T15:04:44+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05T17:44:07+00:00** Notification that SB38 is now Act 524 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/430d3277-aac3-49c3-b9e8-ddd8c1fa3e1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).