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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE."
+description: "CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 454"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 454 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "M. McKee"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-20T19:51:43+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T21:27:35+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e598a77d-1584-45e4-b926-e416fe5dacd6"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "8079dbc2dc821c6738ec7b25cce9c917feaa4d146fef5d3562508faa3e4119b5"
+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 454 (2023) — CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 701** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=701.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB454-S1.pdf)
+3. **SB 454** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB454.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
+
+- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
+- M. McKee — primary (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-20T19:51:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-20T20:21:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28T19:36:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-29T19:28:36+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-31T21:41:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-03T18:18:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-04-03T18:18:49+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-04-03T20:39:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-04-03T21:29:19+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2023-04-03T21:29:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-03T21:29:38+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-04-03T23:07:47+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-04-04T00:44:02+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`
+- **2023-04-05T16:41:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-06T20:38:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-06T20:38:24+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T23:24:10+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T23:24:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-07T19:30:20+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-04-07T19:30:22+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-04-11T21:27:35+00:00** Notification that SB454 is now Act 701 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e598a77d-1584-45e4-b926-e416fe5dacd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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