---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS MINORITY HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - ARKANSAS MINORITY HEALTH COMMISSION - APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS MINORITY HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - ARKANSAS MINORITY HEALTH COMMISSION - APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 49"
citation: "Arkansas SB 49 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-05T21:27:39+00:00"
last_action: "2021-01-28T22:01:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14582af2-e16f-4a5f-9d04-1c81a60639e0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "151e40f5de7239cec3c3f4f97b9ff79499adb918b4ef26a18be6d4f3613b9968"
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 49 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS MINORITY HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - ARKANSAS MINORITY HEALTH 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 49** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB49.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T21:27:39+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T21:56:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T19:48:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-25T20:13:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25T20:13:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-25T20:13:58+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-25T21:09:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-25T21:43:51+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-01-26T19:54:58+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-01-26T19:54:59+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-01-26T19:55:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26T19:55:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-26T19:55:02+00:00** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2021-01-26T21:04:03+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-01-26T21:04:23+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-01-27T16:27:41+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-01-27T16:27:47+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-01-28T22:01:00+00:00** Notification that SB49 is now Act 6 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14582af2-e16f-4a5f-9d04-1c81a60639e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).