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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING FIREARM NOISE SUPPRESSORS; AND CONCERNING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT."
+description: "CONCERNING FIREARM NOISE SUPPRESSORS; AND CONCERNING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 400"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 400 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-25"
+last_action: "2019-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a154278-5317-49ce-8145-8b4dfe0fdfa1"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "45cc53316cc77f42d38106b42d5f9b9c3bcd25213855c7a58f776c0242398926"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas SB 400 (2019) — CONCERNING FIREARM NOISE SUPPRESSORS; AND CONCERNING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB400-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 400** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB400.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–12** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **29–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-25** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-02-25** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-27** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2019-02-27** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2019-02-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-27** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-06** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-03-06** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-03-06** 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`
+- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-13** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-03-13** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2019-03-13** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-14** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-03-14** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-19** Notification that SB400 is now Act 495 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a154278-5317-49ce-8145-8b4dfe0fdfa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+