republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-397.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSUMER GUIDE ACT.	TO CREATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSUMER GUIDE ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 397	Arkansas SB 397 (2021)	bill		enacted	Irvin Speaks	2	19	2	2021-02-25T16:55:13+00:00	2021-04-05T17:17:50+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/96511a2e-ef93-4810-a194-a9f80db61b4e	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	fa8180c60c54647b434f24e3aeae0602e2b8f628ee5559a03f01931e43b8967d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 397 (2021) — TO CREATE THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSUMER GUIDE ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 397 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irvin — primary (person)
• Speaks — primary (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-25T16:55:13+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-25T19:27:57+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-08T19:32:38+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-08T19:33:14+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-08T19:33:43+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-08T19:34:09+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-08T23:20:38+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-09T19:35:57+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-09T19:36:09+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-09T21:32:10+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-09T22:45:30+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
• 2021-03-23T18:11:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-30T18:25:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-30T18:26:00+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-30T19:36:16+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-03-30T19:36:22+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-03-31T17:25:41+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-03-31T17:25:45+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-05T17:17:50+00:00 Notification that SB397 is now Act 539 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96511a2e-ef93-4810-a194-a9f80db61b4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).