---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WATERCRAFTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WATERCRAFTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 657"
citation: "Arkansas SB 657 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding", "Womack"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-07T22:31:17+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:27:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4f523f8-ad15-4c20-9717-3354c37421ea"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "881961453fc3e6d57dd7fc0dbc379ea2838e42258f7bb95608c9d772e911c661"
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 657 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING WATERCRAFTS.

## 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%2FSB657-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 657** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB657.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)
- Womack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-07T22:31:17+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-08T18:25:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T19:19:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T18:34:04+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T18:34:13+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-19T20:48:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-20T20:14:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:14:48+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-20T22:25:09+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-20T23:14:26+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26T22:56:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-27T20:41:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T20:41:42+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T22:16:31+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T22:16:34+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T22:16:37+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T22:16:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:27:17+00:00** Notification that SB657 is now Act 1057 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4f523f8-ad15-4c20-9717-3354c37421ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).