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type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW REGARDING STATE EMISSION PLANS FOR FOSSIL-FUEL-FIRED ELECTRIC GENERATING UNITS."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW REGARDING STATE EMISSION PLANS FOR FOSSIL-FUEL-FIRED ELECTRIC GENERATING UNITS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 65"
citation: "Arkansas SB 65 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Beck"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-07T14:37:52+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T15:35:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f972226-008b-41cf-9b8d-5b66d2259686"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "dbc3fd1701b0780d479bd6121e33b82f7cbf2270c68bc52b200508eb10237c84"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---
# Arkansas SB 65 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW REGARDING STATE EMISSION PLANS FOR FOSSIL-FUEL-FIRED ELECTRIC GENERATING UNITS.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB65-S1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FSB65-S2.pdf)
3. **SB 65** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB65.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **870** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Beck — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-07T14:37:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T22:09:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26T14:30:33+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-01-26T14:30:42+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-01-26T19:10:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:11:16+00:00** Re-referred to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T23:05:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09T19:18:20+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T19:18:21+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-09T20:57:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-10T19:37:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-10T19:37:40+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-03-10T22:31:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-03-10T23:47:19+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`
- **2021-04-01T23:38:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T19:56:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T19:56:29+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:13:30+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-06T22:13:47+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-07T15:38:14+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-07T15:38:20+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-13T15:35:04+00:00** Notification that SB65 is now Act 639 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f972226-008b-41cf-9b8d-5b66d2259686`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).