---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING BAIL BONDS."
description: "CONCERNING BAIL BONDS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 698"
citation: "Arkansas SB 698 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Richmond"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-19T17:52:38+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:20:50+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72f9cba7-c695-43af-b56f-4dc6f5b94894"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0094fb5d9c4f5df6b585868a01409703c1d3e8049d1ed49e7f9fc5449630cf3d"
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 698 (2021) — CONCERNING BAIL BONDS.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 698** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB698.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Richmond — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-19T17:52:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-19T18:40:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T22:16:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T22:20:59+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-04-21T22:21:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T22:21:40+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-21T23:01:45+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-22T00:18:45+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`
- **2021-04-22T18:22:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T19:16:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T19:16:22+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:55:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:55:11+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T14:06:21+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T14:06:24+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:20:50+00:00** Notification that SB698 is now Act 1039 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72f9cba7-c695-43af-b56f-4dc6f5b94894`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).