---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION - HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES GRANTS AND EXPENSES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION - HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES GRANTS AND EXPENSES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 393"
citation: "Arkansas SB 393 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Chesterfield"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24T19:34:24+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T18:11:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddb6e126-3096-4551-a9e4-27f1cff42281"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b4edbd92ed685950a8e21b500436ab135b0dd48735c91513d076c3f0e5abb2c1"
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 393 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF HIGHER EDUCATION - HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES GRANTS AND EXPENSES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 393** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB393.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- L. Chesterfield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24T19:34:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T21:51:50+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:31:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T20:53:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T20:53:46+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-19T20:53:47+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:14:16+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-19T23:07:16+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-20T19:37:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T19:37:15+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-20T19:37:35+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:34:05+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:34:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:13:21+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:13:23+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26T18:11:41+00:00** Notification that SB393 is now Act 890 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddb6e126-3096-4551-a9e4-27f1cff42281`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).