---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF A VISITING QUALIFYING PATIENT REGISTRY IDENTIFICATION CARD FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
description: "TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF A VISITING QUALIFYING PATIENT REGISTRY IDENTIFICATION CARD FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 654"
citation: "Arkansas SB 654 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-07T20:24:10+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:14:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2bfc97b-520d-432e-9f3c-c62e1e5d63b0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f157eb7e3ba6138839c73d56d7a5753ad698ee6b8dac796e931208fc277e8143"
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 654 (2021) — TO EXTEND THE PERIOD OF A VISITING QUALIFYING PATIENT REGISTRY IDENTIFICATION CARD FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 654** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB654.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **57–11** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-07T20:24:10+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-07T21:12:09+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:11:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T18:57:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T18:58:01+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:15:52+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-19T23:11:53+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:30:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-22T19:36:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T22:07:50+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:46:05+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:46:09+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T13:35:47+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T13:35:50+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:14:32+00:00** Notification that SB654 is now Act 1028 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2bfc97b-520d-432e-9f3c-c62e1e5d63b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).