---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 44"
citation: "Arkansas SB 44 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-05T21:24:43+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-03T15:22:56+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5435612-97ad-4d85-8dd6-dd5f92497282"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d42082fd7cf06d09c6c6ff780157d0838f4fa37bab00ddc29107e1c16f15908b"
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 44 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION 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 44** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB44.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T21:24:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T19:35:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Joint Budget Committee `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T19:36:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-27T20:23:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-27T20:23:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-27T20:23:33+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-27T22:21:17+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-27T22:40:21+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-01-28T19:57:07+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-01-28T19:57:08+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-01-28T19:57:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T19:57:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-28T19:57:11+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:00:01+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:00:14+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-01T16:00:57+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-01T16:01:16+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-03T15:22:56+00:00** Notification that SB44 is now Act 36 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5435612-97ad-4d85-8dd6-dd5f92497282`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).