---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM; TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS TO CREATE OR AMEND SCHOLARSHIPS FUNDED WITH NET REVENUE AVAILABLE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM; TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS TO CREATE OR AMEND SCHOLARSHIPS FUNDED WITH NET REVENUE AVAILABLE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 584"
citation: "Arkansas SB 584 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cozart", "Hickey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-22T13:31:38+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T15:33:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/959a344d-5dd7-4069-b6d6-67d7d85cae01"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "029150c1985b9d7992a9aa1b997d45a73a7c3f785527ebb5986bf2ac5972395a"
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 584 (2021) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM; TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS TO CREATE OR AMEND SCHOLARSHIPS FUNDED WITH NET REVENUE AVAILABLE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FSB584-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 584** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB584.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cozart — primary (person)
- Hickey — primary (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- L. Eads — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-22T13:31:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-22T18:24:33+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T23:19:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30T18:21:47+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-03-30T18:22:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-30T18:22:10+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-30T19:26:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T19:47:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T19:47:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-31T19:47:35+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-31T21:42:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-31T22:36:51+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`
- **2021-04-06T18:32:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T19:19:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T19:19:21+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-07T19:19:28+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-07T23:10:23+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-07T23:10:29+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-08T15:56:40+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-08T15:56:43+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-13T15:33:24+00:00** Notification that SB584 is now Act 636 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/959a344d-5dd7-4069-b6d6-67d7d85cae01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).