---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING LAW TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES TO ACCEPT DEBIT CARD AND CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING LAW TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES TO ACCEPT DEBIT CARD AND CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Arkansas SB 98 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Cooper"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6baf43f1-fb9a-46d4-8577-4896bc942e02"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3c24a1a59c97b850e238f44709dfd5998c026085683ff54bc59be295a0d8adfe"
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 98 (2019) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING LAW TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES TO ACCEPT DEBIT CARD AND CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS.

## 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=SB98-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 98** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB98.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Cooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** 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`
- **2019-01-23** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-23** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-01-23** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-01-23** 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`
- **2019-02-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-11** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-11** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-02-13** Returned from the House as Passed, as amended #1
- **2019-02-13** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-20** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-02-20** Rules suspended.
- **2019-02-20** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** 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 SB98 is now Act 195 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6baf43f1-fb9a-46d4-8577-4896bc942e02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).