---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 551"
citation: "Arkansas SB 551 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dalby", "M. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-16T19:06:18+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:02:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ba16e5d-5bbc-4da8-a7a9-a4daea62eac0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0e23cfbb50773c4daafaebf62baaf2b5e5d3883531b619aacf8762f679786de0"
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 551 (2021) — TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT.

## 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%2FSB551-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB551-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 551** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB551.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **18–11** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dalby — primary (person)
- M. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16T19:06:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-16T19:52:30+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05T13:21:20+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-04-05T13:21:27+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-05T18:08:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T18:09:07+00:00** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:13:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T18:36:17+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T18:36:29+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-19T20:46:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-20T19:43:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T19:43:42+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-20T22:24:33+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-20T23:13:12+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:30:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-22T19:33:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T19:33:48+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-22T20:52:48+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-22T20:52:51+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T20:59:25+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-23T20:59:29+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:02:54+00:00** Notification that SB551 is now Act 942 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ba16e5d-5bbc-4da8-a7a9-a4daea62eac0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).