---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING FIREARM NOISE SUPPRESSORS; AND CONCERNING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT."
description: "CONCERNING FIREARM NOISE SUPPRESSORS; AND CONCERNING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 400"
citation: "Arkansas SB 400 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a154278-5317-49ce-8145-8b4dfe0fdfa1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "45cc53316cc77f42d38106b42d5f9b9c3bcd25213855c7a58f776c0242398926"
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 400 (2019) — CONCERNING FIREARM NOISE SUPPRESSORS; AND CONCERNING COMPLIANCE WITH THE NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB400-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 400** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB400.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–12** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-25** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-27** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-27** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-06** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-06** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-13** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-13** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-14** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-14** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19** Notification that SB400 is now Act 495 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a154278-5317-49ce-8145-8b4dfe0fdfa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).