---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION AND ASSESSMENT COLLECTION MATTERS OF CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION AND ASSESSMENT COLLECTION MATTERS OF CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "Arkansas SB 154 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "L. Fite"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T20:09:50+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T18:59:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39bf16fd-cbab-4343-94dd-9589888ebe06"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "32e27c0405d33e737867d137c812aa64a5d27ab22f38a18bbde77220f286fa65"
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 154 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CREATION AND ASSESSMENT COLLECTION MATTERS OF CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 154** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB154.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- L. Fite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T20:09:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T21:03:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T19:43:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26T19:40:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26T19:40:43+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-26T21:01:28+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-26T22:36:53+00:00** 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`
- **2021-02-03T21:35:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04T20:24:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-04T20:24:46+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-04T22:35:37+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-04T22:35:45+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-08T18:08:00+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-08T18:09:00+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-10T18:58:51+00:00** Notification that SB154 is now Act 83 `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-01T18:59:12+00:00** Notification that SB154 is now Act 168 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39bf16fd-cbab-4343-94dd-9589888ebe06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).