republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1557.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN IN PLACE DURING CERTAIN WEATHER EVENTS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION.	TO REQUIRE ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN IN PLACE DURING CERTAIN WEATHER EVENTS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1557	Arkansas HB 1557 (2021)	bill		enacted	L. Chesterfield Murdock	4	19	2	2021-02-24T20:29:07+00:00	2021-04-25T18:11:10+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/63fbcd31-8e9b-4728-b2c0-6b77534b43d0	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	416706ce5ede0cb3ac74953fe08aa0b4b9af117dd588671bb2e7d99044ed5fbb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1557 (2021) — TO REQUIRE ELECTRIC UTILITIES TO HAVE AN EMERGENCY PLAN IN PLACE DURING CERTAIN WEATHER EVENTS; AND TO REQUIRE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY TO DIRECTLY NOTIFY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF CERTAIN EMERGENCY MEASURES TO REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H3 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1557 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 70–8 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• L. Chesterfield — primary (person)
• Murdock — primary (person)
• Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Ennett — cosponsor (person)
• F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
• K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• Love — cosponsor (person)
• M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Nicks — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Springer — cosponsor (person)
• V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-24T20:29:07+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-24T22:39:15+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
• 2021-03-11T14:44:30+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-11T14:44:37+00:00 Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-11T16:38:30+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-05T17:23:35+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 3 committee-passage
• 2021-04-06T13:29:53+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-06T13:29:56+00:00 Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-06T15:33:22+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-07T19:10:33+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-07T22:04:24+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-07T22:04:36+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-15T23:09:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-20T20:56:39+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-20T20:56:53+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-20T23:05:36+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-20T23:05:38+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-21T15:21:51+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-25T18:11:10+00:00 Notification that HB1557 is now Act 877 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/63fbcd31-8e9b-4728-b2c0-6b77534b43d0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).