republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-295.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2001; TO PREVENT COST-SHIFTING AND ENSURE FAIRNESS TO ALL RATEPAYERS; TO CREATE THE CUSTOMER PROTECTIONS FOR NET-METERING CUSTOMERS ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2001; TO PREVENT COST-SHIFTING AND ENSURE FAIRNESS TO ALL RATEPAYERS; TO CREATE THE CUSTOMER PROTECTIONS FOR NET-METERING CUSTOMERS ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 295	Arkansas SB 295 (2023)	bill		enacted	J. Dismang L. Fite	5	31	2	2023-02-20T22:56:37+00:00	2023-03-16T16:22:07+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/62a6a0a2-6e3a-4eb0-b643-fb283cee58c0	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	fe573d693e898fa1393da7f1bb9f265eef5aad71589ceb5c5de6d045f87a05d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 295 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2001; TO PREVENT COST-SHIFTING AND ENSURE FAIRNESS TO ALL RATEPAYERS; TO CREATE THE CUSTOMER PROTECTIONS FOR NET-METERING CUSTOMERS ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 278 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 295 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 73–14 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 24–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• J. Dismang — primary (person)
• L. Fite — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-20T22:56:37+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-20T23:02:35+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T19:45:29+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-02-22T19:45:36+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-02-22T19:45:41+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-22T19:45:53+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-22T20:49:06+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-22T20:49:18+00:00 Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-02-23T23:10:13+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-27T19:49:19+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-27T19:49:26+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-27T20:40:15+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-28T20:23:35+00:00 Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-02T17:38:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 3 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-06T19:39:52+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-06T19:40:02+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-06T21:11:46+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-07T21:06:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-07T21:06:17+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-07T21:06:27+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-07T22:06:07+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-07T22:43:56+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-08T17:46:58+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-09T18:14:05+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-09T18:14:07+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-09T18:14:14+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-09T19:44:29+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-03-09T19:44:34+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-09T21:10:15+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-09T21:10:18+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-16T16:22:07+00:00 Notification that SB295 is now Act 278 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62a6a0a2-6e3a-4eb0-b643-fb283cee58c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).