---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW FOR THE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION OF AN INVITATION FOR BIDS AND ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF BIDS; AND TO CREATE THE FAIR NOTICE AND EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC WORKS ACT."
description: "TO ALLOW FOR THE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION OF AN INVITATION FOR BIDS AND ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF BIDS; AND TO CREATE THE FAIR NOTICE AND EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC WORKS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 409"
citation: "Arkansas SB 409 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flippo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b34d6f05-bf51-41ff-86ed-112c0d5c5166"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5a0341ef55c14436d89d2356e9191e3277be403a88c08e3fe974484e47ec5f02"
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 409 (2019) — TO ALLOW FOR THE ELECTRONIC NOTIFICATION OF AN INVITATION FOR BIDS AND ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION OF BIDS; AND TO CREATE THE FAIR NOTICE AND EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC WORKS 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=SB409-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 409** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB409.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Flippo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-03** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-04-03** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-03** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-05** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-05** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-08** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-08** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-08** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-08** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-08** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-08** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-08** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-10** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-10** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-10** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-15** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-15** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-18** Notification that SB409 is now Act 1075 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b34d6f05-bf51-41ff-86ed-112c0d5c5166`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).