---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 548"
citation: "Arkansas SB 548 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Nicks"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-16T18:17:23+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T15:37:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e18accc-ad86-4780-9c76-ac69fd61af7f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a94f1dbf7d4ec0c0f44e1d256330cf120aef35636520c1d9e16f28d8d747ae3d"
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 548 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS.

## 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%2FSB548-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 548** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB548.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Nicks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16T18:17:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-16T19:44:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23T18:20:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T18:30:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T18:31:38+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-29T22:27:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-30T18:36:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-30T18:37:07+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-30T19:49:03+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-30T22:14:53+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`
- **2021-04-05T21:34:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T20:08:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T20:08:31+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:29:46+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:29:52+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-07T15:53:19+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-07T15:53:24+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-13T15:37:22+00:00** Notification that SB548 is now Act 642 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e18accc-ad86-4780-9c76-ac69fd61af7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).