---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE PROCESS FOR EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS AND DIRECTIVES ADDRESSING A STATEWIDE STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "CONCERNING THE PROCESS FOR EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS AND DIRECTIVES ADDRESSING A STATEWIDE STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 379"
citation: "Arkansas SB 379 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T20:04:24+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-22T13:41:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fef80553-f26f-4805-93c0-344c74ff2933"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4c73fed7168b54dd2e243759b6ca689776340c36acd658a9f8ba5727e075948c"
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 379 (2021) — CONCERNING THE PROCESS FOR EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS AND DIRECTIVES ADDRESSING A STATEWIDE STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY RELATED TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 379** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB379.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **27–4** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **78–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T20:04:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T21:42:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T22:46:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04T20:08:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04T20:08:37+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-04T20:08:45+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-04T22:13:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-04T22:55:37+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`
- **2021-03-12T00:09:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T20:14:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T20:14:17+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-15T20:14:24+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-15T21:25:31+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-15T21:25:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-16T15:32:12+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-16T15:32:15+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-22T13:41:44+00:00** Notification that SB379 is now Act 403 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fef80553-f26f-4805-93c0-344c74ff2933`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).