republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2018s2/sb-5.md

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Bill	CONCERNING THE WAIVER OF A PERSON'S OR ENTITY'S RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL THAT IS CONDITIONED ON A CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	CONCERNING THE WAIVER OF A PERSON'S OR ENTITY'S RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL THAT IS CONDITIONED ON A CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2018S2	SB 5	Arkansas SB 5 (2018S2)	bill		enacted	J. Hutchinson	1	24	5	2018-03-13	2018-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/8fdb5d40-fac4-483a-9302-af0088a0ba97	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	c3399ae60b7608d3993a23da71ac60de6067b3d9132f64b5d267c9dcf6ff0904	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 5 (2018S2) — CONCERNING THE WAIVER OF A PERSON'S OR ENTITY'S RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL THAT IS CONDITIONED ON A CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT OF THE PARTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. SB 5 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 66–10 (pass) · legislature
• Read the third time and passed. — 23–5 (pass) · legislature
• EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — 69–7 (pass) · legislature
• Emergency Clause failed of adoption. — 23–5 (pass) · legislature
• EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — 27–2 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• J. Hutchinson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-03-13 Filed introduction
• 2018-03-13 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-03-13 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2018-03-13 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2018-03-13 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2018-03-13 Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-14 Rules suspended.
• 2018-03-14 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2018-03-14 Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
• 2018-03-14 The vote by which the Emergency Clause failed was expunged
• 2018-03-14 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2018-03-14 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2018-03-14 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2018-03-14 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2018-03-15 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2018-03-15 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2018-03-15 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2018-03-15 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2018-03-15 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2018-03-15 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2018-03-15 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2018-03-20 Notification that SB5 is now Act 13 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8fdb5d40-fac4-483a-9302-af0088a0ba97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).