republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-496.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SPECIAL ELECTIONS; AND TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM DATES FOR HOLDING SPECIAL ELECTIONS.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SPECIAL ELECTIONS; AND TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM DATES FOR HOLDING SPECIAL ELECTIONS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 496	Arkansas SB 496 (2021)	bill		enacted	Hawks Rapert	2	18	2	2021-03-08T19:36:30+00:00	2021-04-12T15:01:27+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/443c2921-9cbf-4f6e-be78-9f09a8cbfccd	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	d5efe04c828952106e3926a6dd18e8c835e297632366800897c166ab87129692	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 496 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SPECIAL ELECTIONS; AND TO ESTABLISH UNIFORM DATES FOR HOLDING SPECIAL ELECTIONS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 496 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 74–9 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 27–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hawks — primary (person)
• Rapert — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-08T19:36:30+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-08T20:32:20+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-16T22:08:13+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-17T18:17:29+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-17T18:17:41+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-17T20:48:26+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-18T19:31:33+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-18T19:31:46+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-18T21:34:13+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-18T22:27:25+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
• 2021-03-31T18:03:49+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-01T19:28:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01T19:28:10+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-01T21:21:06+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-01T21:21:09+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-05T15:28:43+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-05T15:28:50+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-12T15:01:27+00:00 Notification that SB496 is now Act 610 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/443c2921-9cbf-4f6e-be78-9f09a8cbfccd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).