---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMERGENCY TEMPORARY LOCATIONS FOR MEETINGS OF A GOVERNING BODY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMERGENCY TEMPORARY LOCATIONS FOR MEETINGS OF A GOVERNING BODY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "Arkansas SB 76 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2cc4f8f-7efb-4c4b-b367-0988f0568c45"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9ac09f0e9cc5b2f75111b44ea5c31b94d5bf371d8b6f82e2f77e788b5e3a077c"
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 76 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMERGENCY TEMPORARY LOCATIONS FOR MEETINGS OF A GOVERNING BODY; 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=SB76-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 76** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB76.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-22** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-01-28** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-01-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-01-28** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-06** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-06** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-07** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-07** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-07** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-08** 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`
- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-19** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-19** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-19** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-02-20** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-02-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-26** Notification that SB76 is now Act 193 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2cc4f8f-7efb-4c4b-b367-0988f0568c45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).