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type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF MEMBERS OF A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS; AND TO CLARIFY THE DUTIES OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES DESIGNATED AS ELECTION OFFICIALS."
description: "TO AMEND ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF MEMBERS OF A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS; AND TO CLARIFY THE DUTIES OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES DESIGNATED AS ELECTION OFFICIALS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 557"
citation: "Arkansas SB 557 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "M. Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-16T21:28:05+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:05:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de4cb4a4-faa0-49d2-97de-682efb56d8c3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a52f7076253e4b19bd174f0ca637cde5860e141edb8d50003863fcb9383c0001"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---
# Arkansas SB 557 (2021) — TO AMEND ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF MEMBERS OF A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS; AND TO CLARIFY THE DUTIES OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES DESIGNATED AS ELECTION OFFICIALS.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **SB 557** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB557.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **7617** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **276** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Brooks — primary (person)
- M. Johnson — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — 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)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — 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.
- **2021-03-16T21:28:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-16T21:35:09+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T22:49:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07T19:13:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T19:13:41+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:04:42+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-07T22:24:00+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`
- **2021-04-14T18:09:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20T19:12:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T19:12:47+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:51:04+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:51:14+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:32:55+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:33:04+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-29T18:05:15+00:00** Notification that SB557 is now Act 950 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de4cb4a4-faa0-49d2-97de-682efb56d8c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).