---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH ARKANSAS OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING OF UNIFORMED SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS, AND SPOUSES ACT OF 2021; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO ESTABLISH ARKANSAS OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING OF UNIFORMED SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS, AND SPOUSES ACT OF 2021; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Arkansas SB 78 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill", "Lynch"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T17:56:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-23T22:08:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a964845c-3595-4f7e-b9f8-e743ebd2a649"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f6fee40eeae48e1cd61581e12ada84299dc1d30ad006779737c5ffbccf31c114"
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 78 (2021) — TO ESTABLISH ARKANSAS OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING OF UNIFORMED SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS, AND SPOUSES ACT OF 2021; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FSB78-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB78-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 78** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB78.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Lynch — primary (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Hendren — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T17:56:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:23:04+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19T16:05:19+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-19T16:05:33+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-19T19:08:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-19T19:09:04+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:31:13+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-01-26T14:31:24+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:12:34+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:13:32+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T22:37:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-01T20:17:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01T20:17:42+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-01T20:17:54+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-01T21:31:27+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-01T21:56:46+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T19:05:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T20:11:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T20:11:29+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-10T20:11:37+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:32:04+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:32:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-23T00:59:42+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-23T00:59:50+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-23T22:08:54+00:00** Notification that SB78 is now Act 135 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a964845c-3595-4f7e-b9f8-e743ebd2a649`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).