republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-609.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 609	Arkansas SB 609 (2021)	bill		enacted	Bentley M. Johnson	2	21	2	2021-03-29T20:38:11+00:00	2021-04-30T19:05:31+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9bdae219-cefb-4160-b7f8-759b8fac2a17	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	e7e40d78f2226a87b72bfa0555abf011509287f8c1ad11ba0e16d9ef98beb12b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 609 (2021) — TO CREATE THE TRANSPARENCY IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 609 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 76–15 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 25–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bentley — primary (person)
• M. Johnson — primary (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-29T20:38:11+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-29T22:35:20+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21T13:12:02+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-04-21T13:12:09+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-04-21T18:17:08+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-21T18:17:22+00:00 Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T02:26:53+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-22T21:48:44+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-22T21:49:02+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-22T21:50:36+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-04-22T22:54:32+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-04-23T01:40:58+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
• 2021-04-26T17:01:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-27T19:52:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T19:52:38+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-27T19:52:43+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-27T22:15:41+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-27T22:15:46+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-27T22:15:49+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-27T22:15:51+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-30T19:05:31+00:00 Notification that SB609 is now Act 1020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9bdae219-cefb-4160-b7f8-759b8fac2a17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).