---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY; AND TO AMEND § 21-9-301."
description: "CONCERNING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY; AND TO AMEND § 21-9-301."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 494"
citation: "Arkansas SB 494 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Warren"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-08T19:22:27+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T15:28:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e27bed28-d1e0-4d9a-add7-6094bc47bbd0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7b786d471640d33b28952af251c9a91bbb635c86e0613da42c628a815b96714e"
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 494 (2021) — CONCERNING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY; AND TO AMEND § 21-9-301.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 494** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB494.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–10** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08T19:22:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T20:25:33+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T18:31:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18T19:22:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:23:41+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-18T19:23:55+00:00** Motion to expunge the vote by which SB494 passed.
- **2021-03-18T19:23:56+00:00** The vote was expunged.
- **2021-03-18T19:24:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T19:24:47+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-18T21:34:05+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-18T22:27:06+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01T22:25:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T19:12:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T19:12:34+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-07T23:09:24+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-07T23:09:32+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-08T15:56:20+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-08T15:56:23+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-13T15:28:00+00:00** Notification that SB494 is now Act 627 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e27bed28-d1e0-4d9a-add7-6094bc47bbd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).