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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ENSURE THAT BUSINESSES ARE NOT PENALIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PATRONS OR CUSTOMERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO ENSURE THAT BUSINESSES ARE NOT PENALIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PATRONS OR CUSTOMERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 254"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 254 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Lundstrum"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-02T17:29:32+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-17T22:22:43+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f532690-1703-4cba-af75-c575cbc15576"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "862e5ca57dd3b7a49aef943bfd7740d3d79e94331f12cfb2df42d4a6e228782a"
+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 254 (2021) — TO ENSURE THAT BUSINESSES ARE NOT PENALIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PATRONS OR CUSTOMERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; 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](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB254-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 254** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB254.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **74–16** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Hammer — primary (person)
+- Lundstrum — primary (person)
+- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Furman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rice — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-02T17:29:32+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-02T19:12:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-04T14:25:50+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-02-04T14:25:58+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-02-04T19:09:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-04T19:09:37+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-08T22:28:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-09T21:21:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09T21:22:07+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-02-09T21:22:34+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-02-09T22:12:39+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-02-09T22:25:24+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`
+- **2021-03-10T01:07:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-10T20:49:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-10T20:49:11+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-03-10T20:49:19+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-10T22:02:39+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-10T22:02:46+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-11T16:46:23+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-03-11T16:46:29+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-17T22:22:43+00:00** Notification that SB254 is now Act 401 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f532690-1703-4cba-af75-c575cbc15576`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+