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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS PRESCRIBED BURNING ACT."
+description: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS PRESCRIBED BURNING ACT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 415"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 415 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Stone"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-13T20:59:34+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T21:24:04+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75597d7e-e298-43d5-945e-773ac13be448"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "514b516d94b2de62f0b5d2c998dff7b3b3add1f530bed1723888f568e45131f6"
+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 415 (2023) — TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS PRESCRIBED BURNING ACT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 695** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=695.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB415-S1.pdf)
+3. **SB 415** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB415.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **30–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
+- Stone — primary (person)
+- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
+- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-13T20:59:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-13T21:40:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-27T13:36:04+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2023-03-27T13:36:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-27T13:36:17+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-03-27T18:25:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-27T18:25:17+00:00** Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28T18:42:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-29T19:12:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29T19:13:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-03-29T21:05:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-03-29T23:33:57+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03T17:25:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-05T19:49:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-05T19:49:26+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T03:38:52+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T03:38:55+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-06T14:52:22+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-04-06T14:52:24+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-04-11T21:24:04+00:00** Notification that SB415 is now Act 695 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75597d7e-e298-43d5-945e-773ac13be448`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+