---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 448"
citation: "Arkansas SB 448 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-01T21:42:29+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-29T18:11:05+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99e46ccf-85a5-4033-8557-5c24cf43d55f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4b007d53e36e236c5e5987beff7c29e8263748b24cc557f1c4f40d0e828cd12e"
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 448 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 448** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB448.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01T21:42:29+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-01T22:36:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T19:16:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-15T19:30:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T19:30:17+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-15T19:30:18+00:00** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-15T21:03:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-15T22:14:04+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-18T19:29:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:29:36+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-18T19:29:41+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T21:49:12+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T21:49:21+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-03-22T17:42:09+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-03-22T17:42:17+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29T18:11:05+00:00** Notification that SB448 is now Act 436 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99e46ccf-85a5-4033-8557-5c24cf43d55f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).