republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-205.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 ASSIST SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TO FORM A LEGAL ENTITY IN THIS STATE; AND TO CLARIFY THE PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS USED FOR NAME AVAILABILITY FOR CERTAIN CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.	TO ASSIST SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TO FORM A LEGAL ENTITY IN THIS STATE; AND TO CLARIFY THE PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS USED FOR NAME AVAILABILITY FOR CERTAIN CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 205	Arkansas SB 205 (2023)	bill		enacted	C. Penzo Lundstrum	2	15	2	2023-02-06T21:05:27+00:00	2023-03-14T18:25:56+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/68e86283-b64f-47bb-9693-ef9ca29db63b	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	abf26bdfa88ffb53ad1e0983e90658ca79eb78b63f7cfe8ab2be515f4756ad31	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 205 (2023) — TO ASSIST SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TO FORM A LEGAL ENTITY IN THIS STATE; AND TO CLARIFY THE PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS USED FOR NAME AVAILABILITY FOR CERTAIN CORPORATIONS AND LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 256 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 205 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 32–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C. Penzo — primary (person)
• Lundstrum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-06T21:05:27+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-06T22:23:18+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-21T19:32:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-22T20:21:14+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-22T20:21:21+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-22T20:53:15+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-22T22:34:20+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-01T17:42:52+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-07T20:11:08+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-07T20:11:13+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-07T21:53:15+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-03-07T21:53:23+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-07T22:02:32+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-07T22:02:34+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-14T18:25:56+00:00 Notification that SB205 is now Act 256 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68e86283-b64f-47bb-9693-ef9ca29db63b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).