---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 401"
citation: "Arkansas SB 401 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Achor", "J. Boyd"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T21:29:47+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T18:12:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b61c79d6-5fb6-45fc-a7c7-f3305c6f6806"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0aca98c60763a1d98729931109e0ab7c39f40d8fd84ff06da2af141bc4c39a69"
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 401 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 448** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=448.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 401** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB401.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Achor — primary (person)
- J. Boyd — primary (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06T21:29:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T22:02:06+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T18:43:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12T20:49:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T20:49:55+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-12T22:02:00+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-12T23:19:49+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`
- **2025-03-19T20:09:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31T20:47:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T20:47:50+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-31T22:54:34+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-31T22:54:39+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-01T14:19:33+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-01T14:19:37+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T18:12:29+00:00** Notification that SB401 is now Act 448 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b61c79d6-5fb6-45fc-a7c7-f3305c6f6806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).