republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/sb-59.md

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Bill	TO BE KNOWN AS THE "INTRASTATE FIREARMS PROTECTION ACT"; AND TO PREVENT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM REGULATING THE MANUFACTURE, ASSEMBLY, AND TRADE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF ARKANSAS.	TO BE KNOWN AS THE "INTRASTATE FIREARMS PROTECTION ACT"; AND TO PREVENT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM REGULATING THE MANUFACTURE, ASSEMBLY, AND TRADE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF ARKANSAS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	SB 59	Arkansas SB 59 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Ballinger Gonzales	5	27	2	2021-01-06T17:53:54+00:00	2021-04-27T00:34:16+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9ef69080-679a-4dff-9ffe-d11d3dd55ba1	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	b7873135249ffbacb01e146977522f212823b29673219659a23fa21865f17523	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 59 (2021) — TO BE KNOWN AS THE "INTRASTATE FIREARMS PROTECTION ACT"; AND TO PREVENT THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FROM REGULATING THE MANUFACTURE, ASSEMBLY, AND TRADE OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF ARKANSAS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S4 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 59 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 74–18 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 28–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Ballinger — primary (person)
• Gonzales — primary (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-06T17:53:54+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-11T22:04:08+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-08T14:37:07+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2021-02-08T14:37:17+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-02-08T19:11:01+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-08T19:11:18+00:00 Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-02-22T14:32:04+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
• 2021-02-22T14:32:59+00:00 Amendment #2 Withdrawn
• 2021-02-22T14:33:17+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-02-22T19:07:22+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-22T19:07:43+00:00 Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2021-03-30T18:29:37+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 4 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31T18:20:27+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-31T18:20:36+00:00 Amendment # 4 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2021-03-31T20:44:08+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-01T18:37:44+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01T18:37:56+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2021-04-01T21:37:49+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2021-04-01T22:45:21+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
• 2021-04-13T18:06:42+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-15T20:08:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T20:08:46+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-15T21:55:52+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2021-04-15T21:55:59+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2021-04-19T14:23:04+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2021-04-19T14:23:13+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2021-04-27T00:34:16+00:00 Notification that SB59 is now Act 872 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ef69080-679a-4dff-9ffe-d11d3dd55ba1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).