---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO DEEM A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT TWO-YEAR OR FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AN APPROVED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER THE ARKANSAS FUTURE GRANT PROGRAM."
description: "TO DEEM A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT TWO-YEAR OR FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AN APPROVED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER THE ARKANSAS FUTURE GRANT PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 382"
citation: "Arkansas SB 382 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Chesterfield"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T21:15:55+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T22:19:56+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f2d280a-26da-4079-98cc-579d105f385b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "919e500659e341bc800595484083ef8c736eb82ab0a5a2eb54a32c0a04735955"
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 382 (2021) — TO DEEM A PRIVATE, NONPROFIT TWO-YEAR OR FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AN APPROVED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER THE ARKANSAS FUTURE GRANT PROGRAM.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 382** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB382.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- L. Chesterfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T21:15:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T22:15:55+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T00:16:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03T19:44:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03T19:44:32+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-03T22:01:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-03T22:49:20+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`
- **2021-03-11T19:09:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-16T19:09:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T19:09:29+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-16T20:28:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-16T20:28:50+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-17T15:57:47+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-17T15:57:48+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-17T22:19:56+00:00** Notification that SB382 is now Act 388 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f2d280a-26da-4079-98cc-579d105f385b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).