republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-147.md

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Bill	TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015.	TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 147	Arkansas SB 147 (2021)	bill		enacted	J. English Lowery	2	19	2	2021-01-19T18:54:08+00:00	2021-03-29T18:14:20+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b05c6983-d2d2-4ead-ac71-2589828b8692	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	e40f003c89ae09424ea6d1a60dd71b1daf4e1cc5b602c77d753abcd95a666156	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 147 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT; AND TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT OF 2015.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 147 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 82–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• J. English — primary (person)
• Lowery — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19T18:54:08+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-19T20:16:29+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-08T14:39:06+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-02-08T14:39:16+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-02-08T19:13:26+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-08T19:13:41+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-01T19:19:11+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-02T19:17:52+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-02T19:18:22+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-02T21:07:12+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-02T23:04:15+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16T18:18:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-18T19:35:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-18T19:35:30+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-18T21:53:10+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-03-18T21:53:18+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-03-22T17:48:46+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-03-22T17:48:53+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-03-29T18:14:20+00:00 Notification that SB147 is now Act 490 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b05c6983-d2d2-4ead-ac71-2589828b8692. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).