---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DATA AND TRANSPARENCY PANEL; AND TO INCREASE DEPARTMENT PARTICIPATION ON THE DATA AND TRANSPARENCY PANEL."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DATA AND TRANSPARENCY PANEL; AND TO INCREASE DEPARTMENT PARTICIPATION ON THE DATA AND TRANSPARENCY PANEL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 526"
citation: "Arkansas SB 526 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T19:00:42+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T15:05:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f53b9aa-ebec-43ad-8da8-13157c929a3b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "662dfb3b74e1390666190740893494c4fb1b80bc574359092f1737ccac775194"
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 526 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DATA AND TRANSPARENCY PANEL; AND TO INCREASE DEPARTMENT PARTICIPATION ON THE DATA AND TRANSPARENCY PANEL.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 526** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB526.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T19:00:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T19:31:08+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T18:11:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22T18:33:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T18:33:58+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-22T21:05:23+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-22T22:15:57+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:05:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14T20:41:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T20:41:20+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:03:16+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:03:24+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T15:43:02+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-15T15:43:09+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-20T15:05:15+00:00** Notification that SB526 is now Act 742 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f53b9aa-ebec-43ad-8da8-13157c929a3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).