republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-254.md

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Bill	TO ENSURE THAT BUSINESSES ARE NOT PENALIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PATRONS OR CUSTOMERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO ENSURE THAT BUSINESSES ARE NOT PENALIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PATRONS OR CUSTOMERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 254	Arkansas SB 254 (2021)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Lundstrum	2	21	2	2021-02-02T17:29:32+00:00	2021-03-17T22:22:43+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7f532690-1703-4cba-af75-c575cbc15576	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	862e5ca57dd3b7a49aef943bfd7740d3d79e94331f12cfb2df42d4a6e228782a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 254 (2021) — TO ENSURE THAT BUSINESSES ARE NOT PENALIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PATRONS OR CUSTOMERS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 254 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 74–16 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 32–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Lundstrum — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Cloud — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Speaks — cosponsor (person)
• Tollett — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-02T17:29:32+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-02T19:12:11+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-04T14:25:50+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-02-04T14:25:58+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-02-04T19:09:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-04T19:09:37+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-02-08T22:28:49+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-09T21:21:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-09T21:22:07+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-02-09T21:22:34+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-02-09T22:12:39+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-02-09T22:25:24+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-10T01:07:53+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-10T20:49:08+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-10T20:49:11+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-03-10T20:49:19+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-10T22:02:39+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-03-10T22:02:46+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-03-11T16:46:23+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-03-11T16:46:29+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-03-17T22:22:43+00:00 Notification that SB254 is now Act 401 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f532690-1703-4cba-af75-c575cbc15576. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).