---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO BE KNOWN AS THE \"JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE ACT\"."
description: "TO BE KNOWN AS THE \"JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE ACT\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 676"
citation: "Arkansas SB 676 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Gazaway"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-12T21:07:11+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:19:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4eef7b5a-4a23-4867-b206-476fbe713b76"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "65426ac9f9407f92bc63e373d07f71c6117219c0c9ff0de99e27328e7c42f197"
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 676 (2021) — TO BE KNOWN AS THE "JUSTICE FOR VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE ACT".

## 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%2FSB676-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 676** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB676.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Gazaway — primary (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-12T21:07:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-12T21:56:26+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T13:39:47+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-04-19T13:39:55+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-19T18:10:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T18:10:11+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:22:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T21:58:58+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-04-21T21:58:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T21:59:20+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-21T23:00:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-22T00:24:50+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`
- **2021-04-22T18:22:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T19:20:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T19:20:59+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:54:05+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:54:08+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T13:38:18+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T13:38:23+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:19:59+00:00** Notification that SB676 is now Act 1036 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4eef7b5a-4a23-4867-b206-476fbe713b76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).