---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW THE TUITION-FREE BENEFIT FOR SOLDIERS AND AIRMEN OF THE ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD TO APPLY TO PROGRAMS OF STUDY IN WHICH THE COURSES ARE TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE."
description: "TO ALLOW THE TUITION-FREE BENEFIT FOR SOLDIERS AND AIRMEN OF THE ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD TO APPLY TO PROGRAMS OF STUDY IN WHICH THE COURSES ARE TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 66"
citation: "Arkansas SB 66 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Fite", "J. English"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-07T14:40:09+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-23T22:08:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea071b55-e6b5-442a-a5ee-52c4ea981e29"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "746df245fbef505ac9ccd2c6795fa04be909894059bb18998dc7d99045011f30"
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 66 (2021) — TO ALLOW THE TUITION-FREE BENEFIT FOR SOLDIERS AND AIRMEN OF THE ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD TO APPLY TO PROGRAMS OF STUDY IN WHICH THE COURSES ARE TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE.

## 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%2FSB66-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB66-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 66** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB66.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Fite — primary (person)
- J. English — primary (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07T14:40:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:10:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19T16:04:48+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-19T16:05:01+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-19T19:06:08+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-19T19:06:55+00:00** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27T22:00:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28T20:03:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-28T20:04:10+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-28T22:36:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-01T20:10:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01T20:10:58+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-01T21:29:46+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-01T21:55:01+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`
- **2021-02-09T19:04:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T20:12:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T20:12:47+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:29:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:29:42+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-23T00:58:44+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-23T00:58:53+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-23T22:08:04+00:00** Notification that SB66 is now Act 133 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea071b55-e6b5-442a-a5ee-52c4ea981e29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).