republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-81.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LIBRARIES AND OBSCENE MATERIALS; TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF FURNISHING A HARMFUL ITEM TO A MINOR; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING OBSCENE MATERIALS LOANED BY A LIBRARY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LIBRARIES AND OBSCENE MATERIALS; TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF FURNISHING A HARMFUL ITEM TO A MINOR; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING OBSCENE MATERIALS LOANED BY A LIBRARY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 81	Arkansas SB 81 (2023)	bill		enacted	D. Sullivan Gonzales	5	32	3	2023-01-19T22:00:22+00:00	2023-04-04T17:32:28+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d901c895-9e6f-4236-800a-7707861c90e1	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	9e1ef437b6755ea4e1c083462c85eb311915c9056477cfa17c9abbed53d0197e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 81 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING LIBRARIES AND OBSCENE MATERIALS; TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF FURNISHING A HARMFUL ITEM TO A MINOR; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING OBSCENE MATERIALS LOANED BY A LIBRARY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 372 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 81 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 27–6 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 56–25 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 24–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• D. Sullivan — primary (person)
• Gonzales — primary (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19T22:00:22+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-23T19:19:57+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-15T14:16:36+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-02-15T14:16:43+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-15T14:16:53+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-15T19:18:25+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-15T20:04:55+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-02-20T19:29:07+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-21T19:43:36+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-21T19:43:43+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-21T20:12:04+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-22T20:15:35+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-22T20:15:45+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-22T20:52:31+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-22T22:33:53+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-09T18:15:22+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-03-13T13:32:37+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-13T13:32:39+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-13T15:34:42+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-15T20:18:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-15T20:18:49+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-03-15T23:40:17+00:00 Returned From the House as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-03-15T23:41:26+00:00 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T18:36:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-28T19:01:33+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-28T19:01:48+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2023-03-28T19:01:52+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-28T19:02:00+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-28T19:02:07+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-29T13:49:33+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-29T13:49:37+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-04T17:32:28+00:00 Notification that SB81 is now Act 372 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d901c895-9e6f-4236-800a-7707861c90e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).