---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIC FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIC FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "Arkansas SB 43 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-05T21:24:11+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-22T15:18:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7d9d207-d2be-4396-8f52-8a42627876af"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8bb708f1d4cc9fb102d87f769d376040e335cdd2da64bdffc65de88e64f368da"
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 43 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - DIVISION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ACADEMIC FACILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION 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 43** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB43.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T21:24:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T21:50:05+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T19:30:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-08T20:36:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-08T20:36:05+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-08T20:36:06+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-08T22:29:44+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-08T22:50:13+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-09T21:09:02+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-09T21:09:05+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-10T17:45:05+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-10T17:45:13+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-22T15:18:44+00:00** Notification that SB43 is now Act 99 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7d9d207-d2be-4396-8f52-8a42627876af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).