republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-548.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS.	TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 548	Arkansas SB 548 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Johnson Nicks	2	18	2	2021-03-16T18:17:23+00:00	2021-04-13T15:37:22+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8e18accc-ad86-4780-9c76-ac69fd61af7f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	a94f1dbf7d4ec0c0f44e1d256330cf120aef35636520c1d9e16f28d8d747ae3d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 548 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW FOR CONSISTENCY IN OPERATIONS OF A VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN AN INCORPORATED TOWN OR A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 548 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Johnson — primary (person)
• Nicks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-16T18:17:23+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-16T19:44:37+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-23T18:20:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29T18:30:51+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-29T18:31:38+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-29T22:27:35+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-30T18:36:57+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-30T18:37:07+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-03-30T19:49:03+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-03-30T22:14:53+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-05T21:34:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-06T20:08:26+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T20:08:31+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-06T22:29:46+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-06T22:29:52+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-07T15:53:19+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-07T15:53:24+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-13T15:37:22+00:00 Notification that SB548 is now Act 642 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e18accc-ad86-4780-9c76-ac69fd61af7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).