---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO EXCLUDE MILL SCALE AND SLAG FROM THE DEFINITION OF “SOLID WASTE” IN THE ARKANSAS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT AND THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RECYCLING FUND ACT; AND TO ADD A DEFINITION FOR \"MILL SCALE AND SLAG\"."
description: "TO EXCLUDE MILL SCALE AND SLAG FROM THE DEFINITION OF “SOLID WASTE” IN THE ARKANSAS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT AND THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RECYCLING FUND ACT; AND TO ADD A DEFINITION FOR \"MILL SCALE AND SLAG\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 21"
citation: "Arkansas SB 21 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Rye"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-17T22:31:32+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-10T18:53:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ae0067e-ce45-4ffb-9bf8-2b2d5f63f306"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cb59f92effaae56ca886ac9547fac910fb01bba23d0d1df58848609f3e98b550"
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 21 (2021) — TO EXCLUDE MILL SCALE AND SLAG FROM THE DEFINITION OF “SOLID WASTE” IN THE ARKANSAS SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT AND THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RECYCLING FUND ACT; AND TO ADD A DEFINITION FOR "MILL SCALE AND SLAG".

## 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%2FSB21-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 21** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB21.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Rye — primary (person)
- M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-17T22:31:32+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T21:21:07+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25T16:05:26+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-25T16:05:42+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-25T16:06:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-25T19:04:41+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25T21:04:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26T19:17:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26T19:18:27+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-26T20:59:24+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-26T22:34:35+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02T18:57:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-03T19:57:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T19:57:31+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-03T21:17:23+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-03T21:17:35+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-03T23:25:29+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-03T23:25:33+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-10T18:53:45+00:00** Notification that SB21 is now Act 74 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ae0067e-ce45-4ffb-9bf8-2b2d5f63f306`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).