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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 297"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 297 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eaves", "J. Dismang"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-21T17:57:28+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-24T16:06:51+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/225c284c-9560-4c13-b689-9377b80ccc1b"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "541d41d7abd817d6a785d4c9942db87af0e852c10837d763d3699402a0766f8e"
+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 297 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=309.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB297-S1.pdf)
+3. **SB 297** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB297.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eaves — primary (person)
+- J. Dismang — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-21T17:57:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-21T19:41:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02T17:39:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-06T19:40:28+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-06T19:40:34+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-03-06T21:12:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-07T21:08:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-07T21:08:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-07T21:08:26+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-03-07T22:06:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-03-07T22:43:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-08T17:47:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-13T19:37:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-13T19:37:06+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-13T19:37:12+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-03-13T21:53:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-03-13T21:53:09+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-14T13:06:28+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-03-14T13:06:31+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-24T16:06:51+00:00** Notification that SB297 is now Act 309 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/225c284c-9560-4c13-b689-9377b80ccc1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+