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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AUTHORIZE UTILITIES TO RECOVER THE COST OF RESTORATION OF DAMAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GAS, FUEL, OR PURCHASED POWER COSTS CAUSED BY STORMS THROUGH SECURITIZATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AUTHORIZE UTILITIES TO RECOVER THE COST OF RESTORATION OF DAMAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GAS, FUEL, OR PURCHASED POWER COSTS CAUSED BY STORMS THROUGH SECURITIZATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 588"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 588 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Beck"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-22T18:30:27+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-13T15:36:54+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5983cb4c-81df-4d1d-b977-57bed7a2ed6b"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "8c0961c1e86bcd93211b723e620bdf901aed6dcc18686ea0dc420f4b7c3610d3"
+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 588 (2021) — TO AUTHORIZE UTILITIES TO RECOVER THE COST OF RESTORATION OF DAMAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GAS, FUEL, OR PURCHASED POWER COSTS CAUSED BY STORMS THROUGH SECURITIZATION; 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%2FSB588-S1.pdf)
+2. **SB 588** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB588.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **27–1** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Beck — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-22T18:30:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-22T20:20:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-29T13:12:39+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-03-29T13:12:46+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-29T18:14:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-29T18:15:09+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-29T19:15:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on calendar.
+- **2021-03-29T19:16:11+00:00** Re-referred to ENERGY - JOINT `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01T21:07:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05T19:43:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-05T19:44:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-04-05T19:44:15+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2021-04-05T21:55:22+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2021-04-05T22:23:58+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-06T20:10:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-06T20:10:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2021-04-06T20:10:46+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-06T22:31:50+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-06T22:31:57+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-07T15:48:06+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2021-04-07T15:48:10+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-13T15:36:54+00:00** Notification that SB588 is now Act 641 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5983cb4c-81df-4d1d-b977-57bed7a2ed6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+