republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-18.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 18	Arkansas SB 18 (2021)	bill		enacted	A. Clark Gazaway	5	30	3	2020-12-17T22:30:42+00:00	2021-04-08T15:53:04+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9d05d334-0db6-4083-9960-faff594a9dba	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	dbfac116f1638ef63398a4d3956d9f272bd7f0e05952c4ff0ed12a392cbe12e1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 18 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 18 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 71–16 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 33–2 (pass) · upper
• Ordered immediately transmitted to the House. — 31–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• A. Clark — primary (person)
• Gazaway — primary (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Magie — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-17T22:30:42+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-11T20:54:01+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-27T19:56:34+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-01-28T20:03:14+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-01-28T20:03:28+00:00 Amendment #2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted.
• 2021-01-28T20:04:02+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-01-28T20:05:08+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-01-28T21:56:40+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-01-28T22:35:39+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-01T19:56:46+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-01T19:57:22+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-02-01T21:28:02+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-02-01T21:54:27+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-17T23:38:00+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-03-22T13:33:15+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-22T13:33:19+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-22T15:32:52+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-29T20:30:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-29T20:30:28+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-03-29T22:32:36+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended.
• 2021-03-29T22:32:58+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-31T18:07:23+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-01T18:20:00+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-01T18:20:10+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-04-01T18:20:20+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-04-01T18:20:55+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01T18:20:59+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-05T15:20:38+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-05T15:21:13+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-08T15:53:04+00:00 Notification that SB18 is now Act 604 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d05d334-0db6-4083-9960-faff594a9dba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).