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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 548"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 548 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Nicks"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-16T18:17:23+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-13T15:37:22+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e18accc-ad86-4780-9c76-ac69fd61af7f"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "a94f1dbf7d4ec0c0f44e1d256330cf120aef35636520c1d9e16f28d8d747ae3d"
+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 548 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS.
+
+## 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%2FSB548-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 548** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB548.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Nicks — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-16T18:17:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-16T19:44:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23T18:20:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-29T18:30:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-29T18:31:38+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-29T22:27:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-30T18:36:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-30T18:37:07+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-03-30T19:49:03+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-03-30T22:14:53+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-05T21:34:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-06T20:08:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-06T20:08:31+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-06T22:29:46+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-06T22:29:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-07T15:53:19+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-07T15:53:24+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-13T15:37:22+00:00** Notification that SB548 is now Act 642 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e18accc-ad86-4780-9c76-ac69fd61af7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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