---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE UTILITIES TO RECOVER THE COST OF RESTORATION OF DAMAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GAS, FUEL, OR PURCHASED POWER COSTS CAUSED BY STORMS THROUGH SECURITIZATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE UTILITIES TO RECOVER THE COST OF RESTORATION OF DAMAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GAS, FUEL, OR PURCHASED POWER COSTS CAUSED BY STORMS THROUGH SECURITIZATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 588"
citation: "Arkansas SB 588 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Beck"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-22T18:30:27+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T15:36:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5983cb4c-81df-4d1d-b977-57bed7a2ed6b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8c0961c1e86bcd93211b723e620bdf901aed6dcc18686ea0dc420f4b7c3610d3"
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 588 (2021) — TO AUTHORIZE UTILITIES TO RECOVER THE COST OF RESTORATION OF DAMAGES AND EXTRAORDINARY NATURAL GAS, FUEL, OR PURCHASED POWER COSTS CAUSED BY STORMS THROUGH SECURITIZATION; 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%2FSB588-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 588** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB588.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **27–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-22T18:30:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-22T20:20:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T13:12:39+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-29T13:12:46+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-29T18:14:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T18:15:09+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T19:15:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on calendar.
- **2021-03-29T19:16:11+00:00** Re-referred to ENERGY - JOINT `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01T21:07:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05T19:43:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T19:44:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-05T19:44:15+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:55:22+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-05T22:23:58+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-06T20:10:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T20:10:35+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-06T20:10:46+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:31:50+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:31:57+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-07T15:48:06+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-07T15:48:10+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-13T15:36:54+00:00** Notification that SB588 is now Act 641 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5983cb4c-81df-4d1d-b977-57bed7a2ed6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).