---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH PREJUDGMENT AND POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST RATES."
description: "TO ESTABLISH PREJUDGMENT AND POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST RATES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 544"
citation: "Arkansas SB 544 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-12"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ca80e5a-094d-44dd-8775-91fc8ae774ea"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5e19a4fb0b256ed82c361481119b1e6f5ffcd245ba096f849b43f0e4b5f67bcc"
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 544 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH PREJUDGMENT AND POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST RATES.

## 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=SB544-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 544** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB544.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **23–3** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **25–8** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **80–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-12** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-12** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-20** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-20** 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`
- **2019-04-02** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-03** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-03** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-03** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-04** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-09** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-09** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-04-09** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-10** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB544 is now Act 995 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ca80e5a-094d-44dd-8775-91fc8ae774ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).