---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN IN PLACE DURING CERTAIN WEATHER EVENTS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION."
description: "TO REQUIRE ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN IN PLACE DURING CERTAIN WEATHER EVENTS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1557"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1557 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Chesterfield", "Murdock"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24T20:29:07+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-25T18:11:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63fbcd31-8e9b-4728-b2c0-6b77534b43d0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "416706ce5ede0cb3ac74953fe08aa0b4b9af117dd588671bb2e7d99044ed5fbb"
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 HB 1557 (2021) — TO REQUIRE ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN IN PLACE DURING CERTAIN WEATHER EVENTS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1557-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1557-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1557-H3.pdf)
4. **HB 1557** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1557.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **70–8** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- L. Chesterfield — primary (person)
- Murdock — primary (person)
- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24T20:29:07+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T22:39:15+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T14:44:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-11T14:44:37+00:00** Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-11T16:38:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T17:23:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 3 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T13:29:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-06T13:29:56+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06T15:33:22+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-07T19:10:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:04:24+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:04:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T23:09:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20T20:56:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:56:53+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:05:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:05:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:21:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-25T18:11:10+00:00** Notification that HB1557 is now Act 877 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63fbcd31-8e9b-4728-b2c0-6b77534b43d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).