republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-346.md

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Bill	TO PROMOTE PERMANENCY AND TO STRENGTHEN KINSHIP PLACEMENTS FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE.	TO PROMOTE PERMANENCY AND TO STRENGTHEN KINSHIP PLACEMENTS FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 346	Arkansas SB 346 (2023)	bill		enacted	C. Fite Hester	3	20	2	2023-03-01T18:59:03+00:00	2023-03-24T16:20:47+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/ef49864a-4c56-4ace-8502-9044c48b581f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	ec98e1dc707fcdf3482786adec8176ffbe13ab7142ece84c1e3928a96fb91413	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 346 (2023) — TO PROMOTE PERMANENCY AND TO STRENGTHEN KINSHIP PLACEMENTS FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 363 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 346 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• C. Fite — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-01T18:59:03+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-01T19:35:21+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-07T14:23:22+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-03-07T14:23:25+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-07T14:23:30+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-07T19:20:27+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-07T19:20:38+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-13T18:19:42+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-14T18:57:44+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-14T18:57:51+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-14T21:21:29+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-14T22:06:13+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-15T16:19:39+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-16T19:54:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-16T19:54:37+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-16T21:06:23+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-03-16T21:06:25+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-16T21:34:04+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-16T21:34:06+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-24T16:20:47+00:00 Notification that SB346 is now Act 363 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef49864a-4c56-4ace-8502-9044c48b581f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).