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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE NATIONAL DAY OF THE COWBOY IN ARKANSAS."
+description: "TO CREATE THE NATIONAL DAY OF THE COWBOY IN ARKANSAS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1553"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1553 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Penzo"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-22"
+last_action: "2019-03-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d51539b9-3585-4778-97c2-c3b4bbfda604"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "365d5f656fe3f207ff86eecf49b2f690ae5f2e9c7d333423ae16cc8981b56aa9"
+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 HB 1553 (2019) — TO CREATE THE NATIONAL DAY OF THE COWBOY IN ARKANSAS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1553-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **HB 1553** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1553.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Penzo — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-22** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-02-25** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-07** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-14** Received from the House.
+- **2019-03-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-27** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2019-03-27** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-03-27** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-28** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2019-03-29** Notification that HB1553 is now Act 601 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d51539b9-3585-4778-97c2-c3b4bbfda604`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+