---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE TAX COMPETITIVENESS AND RELIEF ACT OF 2019; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE TAX COMPETITIVENESS AND RELIEF ACT OF 2019; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 211"
citation: "Arkansas SB 211 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40e5f59b-94c9-46a8-8291-642930f8da33"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "76b6dd957864ee3c0380378e5d50b62dc8be19b27909387d3381aac909c19741"
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 211 (2019) — TO CREATE THE TAX COMPETITIVENESS AND RELIEF ACT OF 2019; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB211-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 211** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB211.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **28–5** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **82–14** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and failed. — **25–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Motion to place bill back on second reading for amendment failed
- **2019-02-05** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-05** The vote by which SB211 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-02-05** The vote by which SB211 Emergency Clause passed was expunged
- **2019-02-06** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-06** CLINCHER MOTION ADOPTED
- **2019-02-06** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-06** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-06** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-14** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-14** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-14** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-02-18** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-02-18** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-20** Notification that SB211 is now Act 182 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40e5f59b-94c9-46a8-8291-642930f8da33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).