---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 609"
citation: "Arkansas SB 609 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "M. Johnson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29T20:38:11+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:05:31+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bdae219-cefb-4160-b7f8-759b8fac2a17"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e7e40d78f2226a87b72bfa0555abf011509287f8c1ad11ba0e16d9ef98beb12b"
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 609 (2021) — TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; 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%2FSB609-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 609** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB609.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–15** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **25–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- M. Johnson — primary (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29T20:38:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-29T22:35:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T13:12:02+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-04-21T13:12:09+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-21T18:17:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-21T18:17:22+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:26:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22T21:48:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T21:49:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-22T21:50:36+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-22T22:54:32+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-23T01:40:58+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`
- **2021-04-26T17:01:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-27T19:52:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T19:52:38+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-27T19:52:43+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T22:15:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T22:15:46+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T22:15:49+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T22:15:51+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:05:31+00:00** Notification that SB609 is now Act 1020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bdae219-cefb-4160-b7f8-759b8fac2a17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).