republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-24.md

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Bill	CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON WITH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE.	CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON WITH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 24	Arkansas SB 24 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Ballinger Pilkington	2	21	3	2020-12-23T14:34:40+00:00	2021-03-03T20:20:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e3dddff9-c10f-451e-ab5b-91881b7cd94f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	fcce536e8a43da899709c02665e721f6c01357f58a08c0af7e114a0ff9c5ca5b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 24 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFENSE OF A PERSON WITH THE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE OR DEADLY PHYSICAL FORCE.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 24 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 27–7 (pass) · upper
• Motion to Suspend the Rules failed — 20–8 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 72–23 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Ballinger — primary (person)
• Pilkington — primary (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-23T14:34:40+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-11T21:23:08+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-13T19:08:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-01-13T20:00:48+00:00 Motion to Suspend the Rules
• 2021-01-13T20:01:27+00:00 Motion passed and roll call requested
• 2021-01-13T20:01:56+00:00 Motion to Suspend the Rules failed
• 2021-01-14T19:10:57+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-01-14T19:11:24+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-01-14T19:56:15+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-01-19T20:01:05+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-19T20:03:22+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-01-19T20:29:08+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-01-19T21:34:55+00:00 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
• 2021-02-23T22:24:21+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-02-24T20:13:57+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-24T20:15:42+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-02-24T23:10:17+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-02-24T23:10:34+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-02-25T19:40:22+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-02-25T19:40:30+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-03-03T20:20:00+00:00 Notification that SB24 is now Act 250 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3dddff9-c10f-451e-ab5b-91881b7cd94f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).