---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AND TIMING OF TAX COLLECTION IN CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AND TIMING OF TAX COLLECTION IN CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 461"
citation: "Arkansas SB 461 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-28"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c8b4ac3-22d1-4f93-a716-799180c42c14"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3dd5defb7659fcb69ed885fb30fb582c23cfcc95e5c63b9d51d6ab589ec522cb"
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 461 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION OF AND TIMING OF TAX COLLECTION IN CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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=SB461-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 461** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB461.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **73–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **26–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-28** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-27** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-27** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-01** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-01** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-04** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **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 CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- 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** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-10** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-10** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-10** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-11** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-18** Notification that SB461 is now Act 1077 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c8b4ac3-22d1-4f93-a716-799180c42c14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).