republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-291.md

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Bill	TO SUPPORT ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMMUNITY SCHOOL APPROACH.	TO SUPPORT ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMMUNITY SCHOOL APPROACH.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 291	Arkansas SB 291 (2021)	bill		enacted	Irvin L. Johnson	3	35	5	2021-02-04T21:14:29+00:00	2021-04-20T15:06:20+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/20cac5d0-99dd-4bdd-8628-aed89c735b07	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	0689d016432181c27ad82da8be1ef154781bd2de0656aec38e814b6ecad1c168	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 291 (2021) — TO SUPPORT ARKANSAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMMUNITY SCHOOL APPROACH.

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. SB 291 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 55–24 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and failed. — 44–33 (fail) · lower
• Emergency Clause Failed of Adoption — 58–18 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irvin — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-04T21:14:29+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-04T21:37:35+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-03T22:30:25+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-04T19:20:30+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-04T19:20:38+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-04T21:10:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-08T19:46:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-08T19:46:55+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-03-08T19:47:21+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-08T21:56:14+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-08T22:46:49+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
• 2021-03-18T18:10:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-22T19:34:03+00:00 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2021-03-23T21:00:08+00:00 Motion to expunge SB291 vote passed
• 2021-03-23T21:00:35+00:00 Motion to rerefer back to committee passed
• 2021-03-23T21:00:45+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T17:10:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-04-05T13:34:06+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-05T13:34:09+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-05T16:00:20+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-06T20:05:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T20:06:00+00:00 Emergency Clause Failed of Adoption
• 2021-04-06T20:06:12+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-04-06T22:41:45+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1, and the Emergency Clause having failed adoption.
• 2021-04-07T18:12:00+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause passed on March 8, 2021. Motion passed.
• 2021-04-07T18:12:02+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-13T19:39:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-14T18:23:19+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-14T18:24:08+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-04-14T18:24:16+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-04-14T18:24:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14T18:24:48+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-15T15:40:42+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-15T15:40:48+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-20T15:06:20+00:00 Notification that SB291 is now Act 744 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20cac5d0-99dd-4bdd-8628-aed89c735b07. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).