republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-553.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS STATE CAPITOL AND HISTORICAL MONUMENT PROTECTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS STATE CAPITOL AND HISTORICAL MONUMENT PROTECTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 553	Arkansas SB 553 (2021)	bill		enacted	M. Johnson Payton	3	33	3	2021-03-16T20:33:25+00:00	2021-04-29T18:08:35+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/eecdcac1-41f5-4515-8a1e-64d4ffc3c25f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	216fb0a9de8627387cc888c7142495161c825d48fa99fe2e798196deff52d58d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 553 (2021) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS STATE CAPITOL AND HISTORICAL MONUMENT PROTECTION ACT; 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. SB 553 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 27–5 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 23–8 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 72–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• M. Johnson — primary (person)
• Payton — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• Rapert — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-16T20:33:25+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-16T21:23:41+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-29T13:10:39+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-03-29T13:11:15+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-29T18:12:50+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-29T18:13:03+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-05T18:15:35+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-06T18:52:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06T18:52:55+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-04-06T21:31:40+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-04-06T22:34:25+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13T13:35:01+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-13T13:37:59+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-13T15:25:32+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-14T18:09:15+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-20T19:17:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-20T19:17:37+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-20T19:17:46+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2021-04-20T23:20:10+00:00 Returned from the House as passed, as amended #1.
• 2021-04-20T23:21:07+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-04-23T02:46:48+00:00 Returned by the committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass, Concur in house, Amendment #1
• 2021-04-26T18:55:58+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-26T18:56:19+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2021-04-26T18:56:31+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2021-04-26T18:57:19+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T18:57:30+00:00 Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
• 2021-04-26T18:57:32+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed of adoption. Motion passed.
• 2021-04-26T18:57:35+00:00 The vote by which SB553 Failed to Pass was expunged.
• 2021-04-26T18:57:40+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-26T18:57:47+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-27T13:31:34+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-27T13:31:37+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-29T18:08:35+00:00 Notification that SB553 is now Act 1003 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eecdcac1-41f5-4515-8a1e-64d4ffc3c25f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).