---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REMOVAL OF AN OFFENDER'S NAME FROM THE CHILD MALTREATMENT CENTRAL REGISTRY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REMOVAL OF AN OFFENDER'S NAME FROM THE CHILD MALTREATMENT CENTRAL REGISTRY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 561"
citation: "Arkansas SB 561 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-17T20:50:05+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T19:59:56+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53f34202-48ed-47e4-bd47-f615eb00bc06"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7ed912831402ade246f820ba9f1f9876a7879a912bb90ed840e48ecf152978a6"
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 561 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REMOVAL OF AN OFFENDER'S NAME FROM THE CHILD MALTREATMENT CENTRAL REGISTRY.

## 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%2FSB561-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 561** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB561.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-17T20:50:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-17T22:32:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23T13:07:07+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-23T13:07:16+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-23T18:22:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-23T18:22:14+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T18:24:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31T19:35:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T19:35:49+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-31T21:42:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-31T22:36:34+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T23:14:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20T19:43:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T19:43:07+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:52:25+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:52:30+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:33:28+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:33:37+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26T19:59:56+00:00** Notification that SB561 is now Act 896 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53f34202-48ed-47e4-bd47-f615eb00bc06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).