---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE\" IN REGARDS TO THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM."
description: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE\" IN REGARDS TO THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 173"
citation: "Arkansas SB 173 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maddox", "Rice"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-21T19:01:42+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-23T22:11:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0342cae4-c27a-4c39-950c-e64e2d3df2db"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "40ee0dfdcc20e55a9563e7839d7515dc1192b8b34a25a6353f80a3ff36199f87"
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 173 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE" IN REGARDS TO THE OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL USE OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM.

## 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%2FSB173-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 173** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB173.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maddox — primary (person)
- Rice — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21T19:01:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-21T20:29:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:36:21+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-26T14:36:33+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:27:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T22:07:25+00:00** Re-referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27T19:54:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28T20:28:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T20:28:27+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-28T22:35:02+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-28T22:35:08+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T22:03:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T20:18:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10T20:18:30+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:35:50+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-10T21:35:58+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-23T01:03:57+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-23T01:04:04+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-23T22:11:04+00:00** Notification that SB173 is now Act 140 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0342cae4-c27a-4c39-950c-e64e2d3df2db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).