---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 95"
citation: "Arkansas SB 95 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T21:21:36+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:10:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fca2613-12ab-41e1-b87e-bf6639c21d86"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a2ea59ce4b509a676d33142194559aa198ac29db7db6a21df014363944141567"
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 95 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC DEFENDER COMMISSION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## 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%2FSB95-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 95** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB95.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T21:21:36+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:58:33+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T19:08:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26T18:22:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-26T18:22:52+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-26T20:53:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-26T20:53:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T20:54:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-26T20:54:14+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-26T23:07:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-27T03:29:39+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-27T16:24:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T16:24:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-27T16:24:19+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T19:08:41+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T19:08:47+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T19:12:43+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T19:12:46+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:10:06+00:00** Notification that SB95 is now Act 1007 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fca2613-12ab-41e1-b87e-bf6639c21d86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).