republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-479.md

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Bill	TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR RESTAURANTS; TO ALLOW RESTAURANTS TO EXPAND OUTDOOR DINING; TO DELAY THE PAYMENT OF RESTAURANT SALES TAXES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR RESTAURANTS; TO ALLOW RESTAURANTS TO EXPAND OUTDOOR DINING; TO DELAY THE PAYMENT OF RESTAURANT SALES TAXES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 479	Arkansas SB 479 (2021)	bill		enacted	A. Collins C. Tucker	4	32	3	2021-03-04T22:16:26+00:00	2021-04-15T17:02:08+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/2c9b2d52-63d5-4425-bbe4-79afe76dbccf	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	3392f40e9c3a3fe1efdc72719db36e235450fa1e06be7f823771b13c8638b5d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 479 (2021) — TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR RESTAURANTS; TO ALLOW RESTAURANTS TO EXPAND OUTDOOR DINING; TO DELAY THE PAYMENT OF RESTAURANT SALES TAXES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 479 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 76–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Collins — primary (person)
• C. Tucker — primary (person)
• Eaves — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-04T22:16:26+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-04T22:52:02+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-22T13:27:24+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-22T13:27:31+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-22T18:20:47+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-22T18:20:58+00:00 Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-23T18:33:01+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29T20:57:32+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-29T20:57:49+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-29T22:25:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-30T18:35:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-30T18:35:32+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-03-30T18:35:45+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-30T19:48:08+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-30T22:14:38+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01T18:07:16+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-01T18:07:18+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-01T18:45:08+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-07T19:00:20+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-08T19:43:55+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-08T19:44:00+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-08T19:44:14+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-04-08T21:49:33+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1.
• 2021-04-12T18:26:37+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-12T18:26:57+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-04-12T18:27:00+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-04-12T18:27:08+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-12T18:27:18+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-12T18:27:25+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-13T14:46:04+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-13T14:46:10+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-15T17:02:08+00:00 Notification that SB479 is now Act 705 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2c9b2d52-63d5-4425-bbe4-79afe76dbccf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).