---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH JOHN R. \"JOHNNY\" CASH DAY."
description: "TO ESTABLISH JOHN R. \"JOHNNY\" CASH DAY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 405"
citation: "Arkansas SB 405 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rye", "T. Garner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-25T22:51:22+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T19:26:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d6b1222-8024-46ac-9f41-9b15d27a0b65"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2f6d31036961c810896aaa2d1e4c82ce6233b58984531843dcf8d1043d794241"
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 405 (2021) — TO ESTABLISH JOHN R. "JOHNNY" CASH DAY.

## 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%2FSB405-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 405** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB405.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rye — primary (person)
- T. Garner — primary (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-25T22:51:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-25T23:15:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T13:12:54+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-04-06T13:13:04+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-06T18:12:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-06T18:13:00+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T22:32:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15T19:18:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T19:18:40+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-15T22:21:29+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-15T22:45:18+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T18:06:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20T20:17:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:17:50+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:46:10+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:46:16+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:20:27+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:20:34+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26T19:26:53+00:00** Notification that SB405 is now Act 916 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d6b1222-8024-46ac-9f41-9b15d27a0b65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).