---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MANDATORY ELECTRONIC REPORT FILING; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MANDATORY ELECTRONIC REPORT FILING; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 699"
citation: "Arkansas SB 699 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-19T18:12:40+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:15:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bde824fe-75d3-4745-b8b7-6fca6b170bb1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a42cbc5f463b555e1ecc808b8552f5ab82ce86ed5a81e1eac056dbbf4081ad01"
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 699 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MANDATORY ELECTRONIC REPORT FILING; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 699** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB699.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **81–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- M. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-19T18:12:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-19T20:50:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-23T02:10:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26T19:50:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T19:50:22+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-26T19:50:29+00:00** Ordered immediately
- **2021-04-26T23:08:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-27T03:31:09+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`
- **2021-04-28T05:34:18+00:00** Motion to Suspend the Rules for House Rules to meet without notice passes
- **2021-04-28T05:53:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-28T06:00:28+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-04-28T06:08:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-28T06:09:09+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-28T06:10:19+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-28T14:48:36+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-28T14:48:39+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-28T14:48:44+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-28T14:48:48+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:15:30+00:00** Notification that SB699 is now Act 1029 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bde824fe-75d3-4745-b8b7-6fca6b170bb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).