---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO ALLOW A MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY TO FINANCE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH STORMS AND RELATED PERILS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO ALLOW A MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY TO FINANCE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH STORMS AND RELATED PERILS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 689"
citation: "Arkansas SB 689 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Beck"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-14T19:06:17+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T19:12:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e57159ff-80f8-4071-889f-fdb01eb75c98"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "93fee80a7349883d537b794215dd48bf19cfc38dfac40f1fb76126267383c979"
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 689 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW TO ALLOW A MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY TO FINANCE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH STORMS AND RELATED PERILS; 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%2FSB689-S1.pdf)
2. **SB 689** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB689.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-14T19:06:17+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-14T20:44:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to ENERGY - JOINT `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:33:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T18:30:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T18:30:09+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-19T20:48:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-20T20:15:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:15:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-20T20:15:32+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-20T22:25:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-20T23:14:51+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-21T20:58:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T20:58:45+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-21T20:58:50+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-22T01:57:28+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-22T01:57:34+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-22T17:20:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-22T17:20:46+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26T19:12:06+00:00** Notification that SB689 is now Act 903 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e57159ff-80f8-4071-889f-fdb01eb75c98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).