---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "Arkansas SB 68 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-08T20:23:03+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:10:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21106917-56be-489e-a529-4c948872526d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bc9be1eb4255877bc54f8a334dad1b448dae3c95c927c9a3e08226c1648eb821"
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 68 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION AND SHARED SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## 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%2FSB68-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 68** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB68.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–5** (pass) · lower
- EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08T20:23:03+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:12:06+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T19:21:51+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-15T19:22:29+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-15T21:12:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T21:12:37+00:00** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:16:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22T22:24:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T22:24:07+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-22T22:24:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-23T00:47:36+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-23T01:40:04+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-26T18:31:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T18:31:26+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-26T18:31:32+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:49:14+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:49:19+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T13:30:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T13:30:38+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:10:29+00:00** Notification that SB68 is now Act 1009 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21106917-56be-489e-a529-4c948872526d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).