republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-153.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE WORKFORCE EXPANSION ACT OF 2021.	TO CREATE THE WORKFORCE EXPANSION ACT OF 2021.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 153	Arkansas SB 153 (2021)	bill		enacted	Gilmore Ray	2	19	2	2021-01-19T19:21:17+00:00	2021-04-19T17:53:22+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bb5db7f5-595a-4f96-abaf-86edc9a0640e	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	894a29d9f01887c849d82cdaf45edb7caea80fb3dae59e7f445d98ff99b82f61	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 153 (2021) — TO CREATE THE WORKFORCE EXPANSION ACT OF 2021.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 153 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gilmore — primary (person)
• Ray — primary (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19T19:21:17+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-19T20:19:17+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-10T14:40:12+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-10T14:40:22+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-10T19:12:37+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-10T19:12:51+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-17T22:48:09+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18T18:20:45+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-18T18:21:01+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-18T21:32:31+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-18T22:25:31+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
• 2021-04-08T19:30:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-12T20:35:37+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-12T20:35:47+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-13T18:53:17+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-13T18:53:24+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-13T21:00:27+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-13T21:00:31+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-19T17:53:22+00:00 Notification that SB153 is now Act 725 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb5db7f5-595a-4f96-abaf-86edc9a0640e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).