---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL AID FUND TO DISTRIBUTE MUNICIPAL AID TO NEWLY INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL AID FUND TO DISTRIBUTE MUNICIPAL AID TO NEWLY INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 416"
citation: "Arkansas SB 416 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Breaux"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-01T19:15:44+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48594375-52e3-4562-a9f0-a58727234cfb"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2b7a56fb388ff9e7107ac33f1e3b3ec37d507f9a7a9373c5b93a4aadec2ceea2"
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 416 (2021) — TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL AID FUND TO DISTRIBUTE MUNICIPAL AID TO NEWLY INCORPORATED MUNICIPALITIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 416** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB416.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Breaux — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01T19:15:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-01T21:34:50+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04T19:11:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-08T19:43:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-08T19:43:58+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-08T19:44:10+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-08T21:57:15+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-08T22:48:09+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`
- **2021-03-17T23:20:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T20:12:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T20:12:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T20:12:39+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:07:59+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T22:08:07+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:40:00+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:41:00+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:11:12+00:00** Notification that SB416 is now Act 438 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48594375-52e3-4562-a9f0-a58727234cfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).