republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-340.md

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Bill	TO REGULATE THE WITNESSING OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY A NOTARY PUBLIC; TO ALLOW FOR REMOTE WITNESSING OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY A NOTARY PUBLIC; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO REGULATE THE WITNESSING OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY A NOTARY PUBLIC; TO ALLOW FOR REMOTE WITNESSING OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY A NOTARY PUBLIC; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 340	Arkansas SB 340 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Ballinger Penzo	4	35	3	2021-02-22T19:34:23+00:00	2021-04-30T19:24:29+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f48b2077-3571-4e84-8391-dc85a8b81987	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	68af9cdca192f6a0aa93d25bfe973fdf14f3bbe8f9da6f708fce735c275cf49a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 340 (2021) — TO REGULATE THE WITNESSING OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY A NOTARY PUBLIC; TO ALLOW FOR REMOTE WITNESSING OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY A NOTARY PUBLIC; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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. SB 340 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Ballinger — primary (person)
• Penzo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-22T19:34:23+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-22T20:50:30+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-09T15:01:07+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-09T15:01:19+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-09T19:09:11+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-09T19:09:23+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-12T18:17:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-13T18:27:10+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-13T18:27:15+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-04-13T20:47:02+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-14T18:27:46+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14T18:28:02+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-14T18:28:18+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-04-14T21:46:44+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-04-14T22:12:43+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-26T16:56:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-04-26T19:07:46+00:00 Motion to suspend rules to amend on House floor, Engross and for final passage passed
• 2021-04-26T19:08:30+00:00 Motion to place on second reading for the purpose of amendment passed
• 2021-04-26T19:09:04+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-26T20:07:50+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-26T20:32:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T20:32:35+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-26T20:32:44+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-04-26T22:17:58+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1.
• 2021-04-26T22:17:59+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-26T22:18:12+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-27T15:40:08+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-27T15:40:10+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-04-27T15:40:22+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-04-27T15:40:41+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T15:40:53+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-27T15:41:07+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-27T18:42:31+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-27T18:42:40+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-30T19:24:29+00:00 Notification that SB340 is now Act 1047 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f48b2077-3571-4e84-8391-dc85a8b81987. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).