---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 297"
citation: "Arkansas SB 297 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eaves", "J. Dismang"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-21T17:57:28+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-24T16:06:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/225c284c-9560-4c13-b689-9377b80ccc1b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "541d41d7abd817d6a785d4c9942db87af0e852c10837d763d3699402a0766f8e"
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 297 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 309** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=309.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB297-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 297** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB297.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eaves — primary (person)
- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-21T17:57:28+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-21T19:41:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02T17:39:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-06T19:40:28+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-06T19:40:34+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-06T21:12:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-07T21:08:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-07T21:08:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-07T21:08:26+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-07T22:06:18+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-07T22:43:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08T17:47:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:37:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T19:37:06+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-13T19:37:12+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-13T21:53:06+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-13T21:53:09+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-14T13:06:28+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-14T13:06:31+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24T16:06:51+00:00** Notification that SB297 is now Act 309 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/225c284c-9560-4c13-b689-9377b80ccc1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).