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type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TO APPROVE OR DENY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS CONCERNING CLOSING OR ELIMINATING ELECTRIC GENERATION UNITS OR TRANSMISSION ASSETS."
description: "TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TO APPROVE OR DENY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS CONCERNING CLOSING OR ELIMINATING ELECTRIC GENERATION UNITS OR TRANSMISSION ASSETS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 463"
citation: "Arkansas SB 463 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Brown", "M. McKee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-14T15:42:29+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:33:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1e2b356-49e5-4e1c-80c1-40b50ffab7bd"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ca371247713a79fea810fa0ef9e57cf6a1ed4761b0d3efb52bc1a1cfdb258c61"
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 463 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TO APPROVE OR DENY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS CONCERNING CLOSING OR ELIMINATING ELECTRIC GENERATION UNITS OR TRANSMISSION ASSETS.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 580** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=580.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **SB 463** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB463.pdf)
## Sponsors
- M. Brown — primary (person)
- M. McKee — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-14T15:42:29+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T18:47:48+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T18:52:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31T20:26:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T20:26:12+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-31T22:38:38+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-01T02:22:31+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`
- **2025-04-02T23:39:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08T01:46:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T13:46:12+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-08T18:16:08+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-08T18:16:13+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T14:11:52+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-09T14:11:55+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14T22:33:19+00:00** Notification that SB463 is now Act 580 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1e2b356-49e5-4e1c-80c1-40b50ffab7bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).