---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NONMUNICIPAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NONMUNICIPAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 240"
citation: "Arkansas SB 240 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Coleman", "D. Wallace"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-28T19:52:20+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:23+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90f8392b-4b6f-4579-9262-fa204f428b0a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fa042606a08a3326dc9660fcb3b08d50af1ac51463f3607cfb8a24174445def3"
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 240 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NONMUNICIPAL DOMESTIC SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 240** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB240.pdf)

## Votes

- EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Coleman — primary (person)
- D. Wallace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28T19:52:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-28T22:20:34+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08T22:28:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-09T19:41:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09T19:42:03+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-09T19:42:17+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-02-09T22:12:23+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-02-09T22:24:51+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`
- **2021-03-16T22:58:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:48:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:48:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-18T19:48:40+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T21:51:55+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T21:52:02+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:54:44+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:54:51+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:11:23+00:00** Notification that SB240 is now Act 441 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90f8392b-4b6f-4579-9262-fa204f428b0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).