---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTION LAWS."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTION LAWS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 498"
citation: "Arkansas SB 498 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Johnson", "Wing"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-08T20:18:30+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:05:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/866362e1-94d2-4b95-847d-85b5920f18f1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "271fdec12f6b37a694c8ccfdffb83c5feab7a90c84a0f48000a1fb6267d0ced1"
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 498 (2021) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ELECTION LAWS.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 498** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB498.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **26–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- M. Johnson — primary (person)
- Wing — primary (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08T20:18:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T23:23:22+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T22:46:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07T18:59:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T18:59:31+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:04:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-07T22:23:26+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`
- **2021-04-14T18:08:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20T19:10:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T19:10:53+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:47:33+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:47:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:28:40+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:28:46+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:05:43+00:00** Notification that SB498 is now Act 952 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/866362e1-94d2-4b95-847d-85b5920f18f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).