---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE MAINTENANCE OF FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT INFORMATION FOR THE EFFICIENT OPERATION OF THE 911 EMERGENCY SERVICE SYSTEM."
description: "TO REQUIRE MAINTENANCE OF FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT INFORMATION FOR THE EFFICIENT OPERATION OF THE 911 EMERGENCY SERVICE SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 179"
citation: "Arkansas SB 179 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Cavenaugh"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25T18:51:06+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T22:17:25+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2045d1c5-af30-43d4-a753-4488e4815721"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ba1e119213ee3e0db77bedd1ad908811f730ba2ca5cd2c94dd233f4fdd80a5a9"
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 179 (2021) — TO REQUIRE MAINTENANCE OF FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT INFORMATION FOR THE EFFICIENT OPERATION OF THE 911 EMERGENCY SERVICE 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%2FSB179-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 179** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB179.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Cavenaugh — primary (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T18:51:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T19:42:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T14:24:48+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-02-04T14:25:23+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-02-04T19:06:36+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-04T19:06:49+00:00** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25T19:15:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01T20:31:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01T20:32:15+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-01T22:41:30+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-01T23:07:23+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`
- **2021-03-10T23:12:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T20:09:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T20:09:21+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-11T22:36:16+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-11T22:36:26+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-15T16:50:08+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-15T16:50:15+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-17T22:17:25+00:00** Notification that SB179 is now Act 382 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2045d1c5-af30-43d4-a753-4488e4815721`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).