---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMERGENCY PROCUREMENTS; AND TO INCLUDE A STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY IN THE DEFINITION OF \"CRITICAL EMERGENCY\" FOR PURPOSES OF AN EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMERGENCY PROCUREMENTS; AND TO INCLUDE A STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY IN THE DEFINITION OF \"CRITICAL EMERGENCY\" FOR PURPOSES OF AN EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 166"
citation: "Arkansas SB 166 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway", "J. Dotson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-30T22:42:54+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T21:45:48+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cf84ed9-eaa4-485a-8c01-fd98fab4eb41"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e19979f31cddefc3153ce18a8accca3dbbdd3d5338909a8ca250e9d3668c11f7"
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 166 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING EMERGENCY PROCUREMENTS; AND TO INCLUDE A STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY IN THE DEFINITION OF "CRITICAL EMERGENCY" FOR PURPOSES OF AN EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 207** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=207.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 166** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB166.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30T22:42:54+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-30T23:05:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T19:38:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10T20:13:29+00:00** Read third time and failed to pass.
- **2025-02-10T20:18:31+00:00** Motion to expunge the vote; Motion carried
- **2025-02-11T19:57:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T19:57:30+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-02-11T21:06:53+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-02-11T22:50:34+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T22:44:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T21:09:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T21:09:27+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:24:22+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-02-26T22:24:26+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-02-26T22:32:08+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-02-26T22:32:11+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:45:48+00:00** Notification that SB166 is now Act 207 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6cf84ed9-eaa4-485a-8c01-fd98fab4eb41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).