---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A REGIONAL WATER DISTRIBUTION DISTRICT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A REGIONAL WATER DISTRIBUTION DISTRICT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 253"
citation: "Arkansas SB 253 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a11fed1d-bedc-4388-a1e5-3ffd649d8b07"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cb9a16ae99817d4996dd399104f653685a3e76b3e5bfb5b111d745c14c0ece84"
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 253 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF A REGIONAL WATER DISTRIBUTION DISTRICT.

## 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=SB253-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 253** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB253.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-18** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-19** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-19** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-19** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-07** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-07** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-11** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-13** Notification that SB253 is now Act 450 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a11fed1d-bedc-4388-a1e5-3ffd649d8b07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).