republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-160.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.	TO REQUIRE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 160	Arkansas SB 160 (2021)	bill		enacted	Hester Vaught	5	31	2	2021-01-20T18:51:15+00:00	2021-04-12T15:01:47+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b34a959e-43be-4563-a853-0882628b7d0c	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	d76698c464a09775d4cef6bc192c1e51f87e06344d3bb7c3bb60ba859ccf2a26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 160 (2021) — TO REQUIRE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION BE TAUGHT IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S4 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 160 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hester — primary (person)
• Vaught — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
• Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
• Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Godfrey — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Hendren — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McCullough — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-20T18:51:15+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-20T19:39:05+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-21T15:29:43+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-01-21T15:29:52+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-01-21T19:40:20+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-01-21T19:41:45+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-01-26T14:34:09+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
• 2021-01-26T14:34:18+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-01-26T19:16:19+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-01-26T19:16:39+00:00 Re-referred to Senate Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2021-02-04T14:24:19+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
• 2021-02-04T14:24:27+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-02-04T19:05:51+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-04T19:06:11+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-18T12:54:51+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 4
• 2021-03-18T12:55:00+00:00 Amendment # 4 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-18T18:06:16+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-18T18:06:28+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-22T23:15:15+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29T18:35:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-29T18:36:10+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-29T22:57:56+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-29T23:08:56+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
• 2021-04-01T17:11:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-06T19:30:17+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T19:30:22+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-06T22:16:34+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-06T22:17:12+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-07T15:40:10+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-07T15:40:16+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-12T15:01:47+00:00 Notification that SB160 is now Act 611 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b34a959e-43be-4563-a853-0882628b7d0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).