---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE ALL NEWLY CONSTRUCTED PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNDERGOING ADDITIONS OR TOTAL RENOVATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATIONS."
description: "TO REQUIRE ALL NEWLY CONSTRUCTED PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNDERGOING ADDITIONS OR TOTAL RENOVATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 532"
citation: "Arkansas SB 532 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deffenbaugh", "J. English"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-11T22:39:58+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-21T17:11:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f91487f7-cacd-4466-8e37-ed0f2638de9f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b52b7a7d25fc068c055dbea27e01b9fee553fcb49ec8b8ef046514c0a9d4d1eb"
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 532 (2021) — TO REQUIRE ALL NEWLY CONSTRUCTED PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND EXISTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNDERGOING ADDITIONS OR TOTAL RENOVATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATIONS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB532-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 532** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB532.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and failed. — **17–13** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **23–7** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **83–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Deffenbaugh — primary (person)
- J. English — primary (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T22:39:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-15T18:45:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T13:05:55+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-17T13:06:02+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-17T18:08:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-17T18:08:48+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:14:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T19:43:01+00:00** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T19:43:13+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which SB532 failed to pass. Motion passed.
- **2021-03-29T19:43:15+00:00** The vote by which SB532 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2021-04-08T19:06:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:06:58+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-08T20:05:52+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-08T23:18:59+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:04:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-15T20:03:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T20:03:31+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:09:47+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:09:56+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-19T14:30:47+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-19T14:30:51+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-21T17:11:17+00:00** Notification that SB532 is now Act 775 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f91487f7-cacd-4466-8e37-ed0f2638de9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).