---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS."
description: "TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 88"
citation: "Arkansas SB 88 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "Ladyman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T19:12:38+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T20:06:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7642a20f-c64c-428a-9e6b-792d5fd8312a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "10adf7f6db7088e6eacec95c91bd647da957a048e94e1b75dbbeea009b3beca6"
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 88 (2021) — TO AMEND THE COMPOSITION OF THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB88-H1.pdf)
2. **SB 88** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB88.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- Ladyman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T19:12:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:31:09+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T20:01:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-25T19:26:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25T19:26:50+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-25T21:10:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-25T21:44:59+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`
- **2021-02-03T14:38:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-03T14:38:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-03T16:16:22+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-23T19:03:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-24T19:31:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T19:31:58+00:00** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2021-02-24T23:11:15+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T23:11:29+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T19:44:30+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-25T19:44:39+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-01T20:06:45+00:00** Notification that SB88 is now Act 159 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7642a20f-c64c-428a-9e6b-792d5fd8312a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).