republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-488.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO CREATE AN EXEMPTION TO THE EXAMINATION AND COPYING OF PUBLIC RECORDS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 AND VOTED BALLOTS.	TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO CREATE AN EXEMPTION TO THE EXAMINATION AND COPYING OF PUBLIC RECORDS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 AND VOTED BALLOTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 488	Arkansas SB 488 (2021)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Lowery	2	19	2	2021-03-05T22:01:48+00:00	2021-04-19T17:53:24+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/af02656a-9ef1-4811-9438-97e7c1bb1162	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	640bca50c8e5cdab5ced66163ddc57807c0c68ec1ed338e87800d55b2bdcd6ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 488 (2021) — TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO CREATE AN EXEMPTION TO THE EXAMINATION AND COPYING OF PUBLIC RECORDS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967 AND VOTED BALLOTS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 488 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 71–21 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 28–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Lowery — primary (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Bragg — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Dalby — cosponsor (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hawks — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Sturch — cosponsor (person)
• L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-05T22:01:48+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-08T19:46:25+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-22T13:27:50+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-22T13:27:57+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-22T18:21:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-22T18:21:54+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-31T18:25:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-01T19:27:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01T19:27:31+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-04-01T21:39:24+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-04-01T22:48:16+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
• 2021-04-12T18:01:20+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-13T19:45:43+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-13T19:45:48+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-13T21:26:53+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-13T21:26:59+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-14T15:06:29+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-14T15:06:35+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-19T17:53:24+00:00 Notification that SB488 is now Act 727 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af02656a-9ef1-4811-9438-97e7c1bb1162. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).