---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE FORMULA RATE REVIEW ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE FORMULA RATE REVIEW ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 489"
citation: "Arkansas SB 489 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Maddox"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-05T22:46:11+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-27T00:51:56+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eeafca8e-c694-4750-85f4-aa2924f48402"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3234beb71cbed8556a08672379842f56543071cba45ce385ee1b3d43a0e9b385"
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 489 (2021) — TO AMEND THE FORMULA RATE REVIEW ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FSB489-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB489-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 489** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB489.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Maddox — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-05T22:46:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T19:47:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09T15:02:58+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-09T15:03:06+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-09T19:13:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T19:13:47+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12T00:30:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-06T18:28:28+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07T13:44:32+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2021-04-07T13:44:41+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-07T18:11:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-07T18:11:12+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12T18:11:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-13T18:32:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T18:32:51+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-13T18:33:05+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-13T21:05:44+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-13T22:13:32+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-19T18:07:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-20T20:22:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:22:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-20T20:22:54+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:46:46+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T22:47:01+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T16:27:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-21T16:27:43+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-27T00:51:56+00:00** Notification that SB489 is now Act 894 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eeafca8e-c694-4750-85f4-aa2924f48402`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).