---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING THE TIME FOR SUBMITTING A PROTEST UNDER THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING THE TIME FOR SUBMITTING A PROTEST UNDER THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 400"
citation: "Arkansas SB 400 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flippo", "Jean"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-25T18:34:02+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:14:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92041e7a-ff6b-4539-9094-ed6ae207ba14"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "41655faa866002bef5bd4ecb12ecafc5830f36e4b53bd56ecfe652b9976087bb"
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 400 (2021) — TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING THE TIME FOR SUBMITTING A PROTEST UNDER THE ARKANSAS PROCUREMENT LAW.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 400** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB400.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Flippo — primary (person)
- Jean — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-25T18:34:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-25T19:29:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09T23:16:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11T19:59:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T19:59:34+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-11T23:24:48+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-11T23:40:15+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T22:52:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T20:05:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T20:05:17+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:07:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:07:30+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:57:42+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:57:48+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:14:00+00:00** Notification that SB400 is now Act 487 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92041e7a-ff6b-4539-9094-ed6ae207ba14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).