republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-739.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO PROVIDE EMPLOYEE EXEMPTIONS FROM FEDERAL MANDATES AND EMPLOYER MANDATES RELATED TO CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO PROVIDE EMPLOYEE EXEMPTIONS FROM FEDERAL MANDATES AND EMPLOYER MANDATES RELATED TO CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 739	Arkansas SB 739 (2021)	bill		enacted	Bryant K. Hammer	4	29	4	2021-09-29T15:51:53+00:00	2021-10-13T15:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e105fe62-4abf-4e62-9557-854a9552438b	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	1305e72367f638eccb3a93f47e89e93940e396dbf6c3e4a73f9661f58132aa9d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 739 (2021) — TO PROVIDE EMPLOYEE EXEMPTIONS FROM FEDERAL MANDATES AND EMPLOYER MANDATES RELATED TO CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19); 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. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 739 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 61–25 (pass) · lower
• Second Roll call on the Emergency Clause. The Emergency Clause Failed of Adoption. — 23–11 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 21–12 (pass) · upper
• Motion to Expunge the Failed Emergency Clause. Voice vote taken and the motion failed. Roll call requested. Five hands were seen. — 23–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryant — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-09-29T15:51:53+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-09-29T17:30:19+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-09-29T18:55:40+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-30T17:23:36+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-10-01T19:02:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-10-04T14:08:11+00:00 Amendments 1 and 2 withdrawn
• 2021-10-04T14:08:35+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-10-04T14:08:47+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-10-04T15:24:55+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-10-04T15:25:00+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-10-04T17:14:49+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-10-04T17:16:01+00:00 Emergency Clause Failed of Adoption
• 2021-10-04T17:16:05+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed to pass. Motion carried.
• 2021-10-04T17:16:10+00:00 Second Roll call on the Emergency Clause. The Emergency Clause Failed of Adoption.
• 2021-10-04T17:16:30+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Failed Emergency Clause. Voice vote taken and the motion failed. Roll call requested. Five hands were seen.
• 2021-10-04T17:16:35+00:00 Motion to Expunge the vote by which the Emergency Clause failed to pass failed.
• 2021-10-04T17:17:00+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House as passed with the Emergency Clause having failed of adoption.
• 2021-10-04T18:13:25+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-10-04T23:20:38+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-10-05T15:39:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-10-06T16:32:11+00:00 Motion to postpone vote temporarily passed
• 2021-10-06T19:49:42+00:00 Motion to take SB739 off the table passed
• 2021-10-06T19:49:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-10-06T19:50:13+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-10-07T01:00:47+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-10-07T01:00:51+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-10-07T15:35:57+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-10-07T15:36:00+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-10-13T15:00:00+00:00 Notification that SB739 is now Act 1115 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e105fe62-4abf-4e62-9557-854a9552438b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).