---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE."
description: "CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 454"
citation: "Arkansas SB 454 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "M. McKee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-20T19:51:43+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T21:27:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e598a77d-1584-45e4-b926-e416fe5dacd6"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8079dbc2dc821c6738ec7b25cce9c917feaa4d146fef5d3562508faa3e4119b5"
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 454 (2023) — CONCERNING PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS FOR INTERRUPTIBLE SERVICE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 701** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=701.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB454-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 454** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB454.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- M. McKee — primary (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-20T19:51:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-20T20:21:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28T19:36:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29T19:28:36+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31T21:41:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03T18:18:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-04-03T18:18:49+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-04-03T20:39:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-03T21:29:19+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2023-04-03T21:29:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-03T21:29:38+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-04-03T23:07:47+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-04-04T00:44:02+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`
- **2023-04-05T16:41:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06T20:38:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T20:38:24+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T23:24:10+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T23:24:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T19:30:20+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-07T19:30:22+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-11T21:27:35+00:00** Notification that SB454 is now Act 701 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e598a77d-1584-45e4-b926-e416fe5dacd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).