---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ATTENDANCE OF THE COMMISSIONER AND THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION AT BOARD OR COMMISSION MEETINGS."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ATTENDANCE OF THE COMMISSIONER AND THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION AT BOARD OR COMMISSION MEETINGS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "Arkansas SB 63 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-06T18:58:07+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-11T16:19:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d98ed82f-f201-429e-a22e-eefd26cfa17b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9f054cf265c36d2cdb9a97a4cc7b9781e739f30ef50bd622526efac9a6da4350"
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 63 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ATTENDANCE OF THE COMMISSIONER AND THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION AT BOARD OR COMMISSION MEETINGS.

## 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%2FSB63-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 63** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB63.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **22–9** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **71–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-06T18:58:07+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:07:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:29:59+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-26T14:30:10+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:11:43+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:12:05+00:00** Re-referred to Senate Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22T21:52:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-23T19:30:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T19:30:43+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-23T22:56:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-23T23:12:21+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`
- **2021-03-04T18:09:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08T20:32:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-08T20:32:27+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-08T23:09:51+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-08T23:10:00+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-09T18:46:24+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-09T18:46:31+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-11T16:19:21+00:00** Notification that SB63 is now Act 321 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d98ed82f-f201-429e-a22e-eefd26cfa17b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).