republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-297.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 297	Arkansas SB 297 (2023)	bill		enacted	Eaves J. Dismang	3	20	2	2023-02-21T17:57:28+00:00	2023-03-24T16:06:51+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/225c284c-9560-4c13-b689-9377b80ccc1b	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	541d41d7abd817d6a785d4c9942db87af0e852c10837d763d3699402a0766f8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 297 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS UNDERGROUND FACILITIES DAMAGE PREVENTION ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 309 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 297 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 98–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eaves — primary (person)
• J. Dismang — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-21T17:57:28+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-21T19:41:45+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-02T17:39:10+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-06T19:40:28+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-06T19:40:34+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-06T21:12:02+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-07T21:08:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-07T21:08:19+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-07T21:08:26+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-07T22:06:18+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-07T22:43:41+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
• 2023-03-08T17:47:33+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-13T19:37:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-13T19:37:06+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-03-13T19:37:12+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-13T21:53:06+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-03-13T21:53:09+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-14T13:06:28+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-14T13:06:31+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-24T16:06:51+00:00 Notification that SB297 is now Act 309 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/225c284c-9560-4c13-b689-9377b80ccc1b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).