---
type: "Bill"
title: "PERMITTING THE REMOTE TESTIMONY OF A CHILD."
description: "PERMITTING THE REMOTE TESTIMONY OF A CHILD."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 612"
citation: "Arkansas SB 612 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Garner"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-29T21:00:30+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:13:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f238ce86-663e-4217-8c5f-7f4997797fbc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "caf5d1073c067ee20365c22d7b0def45722b00a7d1e323a6bb2435fb2c8346be"
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 612 (2021) — PERMITTING THE REMOTE TESTIMONY OF A CHILD.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 612** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB612.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **84–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- T. Garner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29T21:00:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-29T22:36:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:24:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T18:46:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T18:46:18+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:15:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-19T23:10:33+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`
- **2021-04-22T18:21:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T19:14:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T19:14:08+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:50:11+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:50:16+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T13:34:54+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T13:34:56+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:13:59+00:00** Notification that SB612 is now Act 1026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f238ce86-663e-4217-8c5f-7f4997797fbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).