---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ACCEPTANCE OF CERTAIN FEDERAL BENEFITS PROMOTING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION."
description: "TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ACCEPTANCE OF CERTAIN FEDERAL BENEFITS PROMOTING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 618"
citation: "Arkansas SB 618 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Gazaway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31T14:41:06+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:14:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a8f1208-3556-4b7b-98a5-ed8359576ca5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4049a9362f6264d2511930c852c83383aee4cdf89dc8a77fac47cd7a4ceb3b91"
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 618 (2021) — TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE ACCEPTANCE OF CERTAIN FEDERAL BENEFITS PROMOTING VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 618** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB618.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Gazaway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-31T14:41:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-31T18:32:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T18:48:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T18:48:35+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:15:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-19T23:10:49+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`
- **2021-04-22T17:47:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T19:12:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T19:12:10+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:50:53+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:50:56+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T13:35:18+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T13:35:21+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:14:15+00:00** Notification that SB618 is now Act 1027 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a8f1208-3556-4b7b-98a5-ed8359576ca5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).