republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-276.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE; AND TO CLARIFY THAT SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE IS ACCEPTABLE COVERAGE FOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE COVERAGE.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE; AND TO CLARIFY THAT SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE IS ACCEPTABLE COVERAGE FOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE COVERAGE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 276	Arkansas SB 276 (2025)	bill		enacted	B. Johnson Steimel	2	15	0	2025-02-24T17:29:33+00:00	2025-03-20T18:34:49+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/927c3aa6-9090-40b9-8ae2-813adfca263f	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	89c8c5a91160ddc1054a47b264f0f06e8e3f008b62426254814dff5ca18e4ad2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 276 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE; AND TO CLARIFY THAT SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE IS ACCEPTABLE COVERAGE FOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE COVERAGE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 345 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 276 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• B. Johnson — primary (person)
• Steimel — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-24T17:29:33+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-24T19:42:20+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T19:41:07+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-10T18:59:44+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-10T18:59:54+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-03-10T21:03:38+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-03-10T22:53:55+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
• 2025-03-12T18:25:53+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T19:36:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-17T19:37:05+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-17T21:38:37+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-03-17T21:38:40+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-03-18T14:16:55+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-03-18T14:16:58+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-03-20T18:34:49+00:00 Notification that SB276 is now Act 345 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/927c3aa6-9090-40b9-8ae2-813adfca263f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).