---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON WITH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE."
description: "CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON WITH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 24"
citation: "Arkansas SB 24 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Pilkington"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-12-23T14:34:40+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-03T20:20:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3dddff9-c10f-451e-ab5b-91881b7cd94f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fcce536e8a43da899709c02665e721f6c01357f58a08c0af7e114a0ff9c5ca5b"
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 24 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON WITH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE.

## 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%2FSB24-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 24** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB24.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **27–7** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Suspend the Rules failed — **20–8** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **72–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Pilkington — primary (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-23T14:34:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T21:23:08+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13T19:08:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-13T20:00:48+00:00** Motion to Suspend the Rules
- **2021-01-13T20:01:27+00:00** Motion passed and roll call requested
- **2021-01-13T20:01:56+00:00** Motion to Suspend the Rules failed
- **2021-01-14T19:10:57+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-14T19:11:24+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-14T19:56:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-19T20:01:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-19T20:03:22+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-01-19T20:29:08+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-01-19T21:34:55+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`
- **2021-02-23T22:24:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-24T20:13:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T20:15:42+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-24T23:10:17+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T23:10:34+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T19:40:22+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-02-25T19:40:30+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-03T20:20:00+00:00** Notification that SB24 is now Act 250 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3dddff9-c10f-451e-ab5b-91881b7cd94f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).