---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY GAS RATES TO DETERMINE THE LOWEST OR MOST ADVANTAGEOUS MARKET FOR PIPELINE COMPANIES."
description: "TO MODIFY GAS RATES TO DETERMINE THE LOWEST OR MOST ADVANTAGEOUS MARKET FOR PIPELINE COMPANIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Arkansas SB 136 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "Pilkington"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-14T22:00:20+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T20:07:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dc03a34-3036-4b0d-8ea8-5ee1680fac32"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "61a45139e4a66ad904c5762df5f7534488e27297b86e26acec72f9cfbdf3ae48"
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 136 (2021) — TO MODIFY GAS RATES TO DETERMINE THE LOWEST OR MOST ADVANTAGEOUS MARKET FOR PIPELINE COMPANIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB136-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 136** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB136.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- Pilkington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14T22:00:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T20:08:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20T19:23:16+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on calendar.
- **2021-01-20T19:23:36+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T14:36:13+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-02T14:36:27+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-02T19:09:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-02T19:09:39+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T21:36:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-08T19:29:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-08T19:29:39+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-08T22:30:04+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-08T22:50:32+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22T21:13:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23T19:32:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T19:32:38+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-23T23:36:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-23T23:36:06+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-24T21:47:48+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-24T21:47:56+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-01T20:07:30+00:00** Notification that SB136 is now Act 156 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9dc03a34-3036-4b0d-8ea8-5ee1680fac32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).