---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTY FINANCIAL RECORDS AND THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF A COUNTY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTY FINANCIAL RECORDS AND THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF A COUNTY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Arkansas SB 70 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Speaks"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-08T21:17:41+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-08T20:28:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cc6e1d0-f8d2-4d76-9143-fcf5360efd17"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "95163846eaa1e6a3861bab04a055d622dbc1dc185418686499e2f401752d2729"
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 70 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING COUNTY FINANCIAL RECORDS AND THE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF A COUNTY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 70** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB70.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Speaks — primary (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08T21:17:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:13:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T19:41:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-25T19:15:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25T19:16:29+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-25T21:10:21+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-25T21:44:20+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27T21:48:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28T19:50:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T19:50:25+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:05:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:05:29+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-01T16:03:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-01T16:03:39+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-08T20:28:24+00:00** Notification that SB70 is now Act 66 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cc6e1d0-f8d2-4d76-9143-fcf5360efd17`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).