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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE JURISDICTION OF COUNTY EQUALIZATION BOARDS WITH RESPECT TO PRODUCING MINERAL RIGHTS."
+description: "TO AMEND THE JURISDICTION OF COUNTY EQUALIZATION BOARDS WITH RESPECT TO PRODUCING MINERAL RIGHTS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1659"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1659 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-04"
+last_action: "2019-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/115a8257-4004-4839-a084-3f66e2b7ee97"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "0048d93fb8fa0b7e0a090aa8c92b63420368d5762ab4d20cffbe179b93402b30"
+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 1659 (2019) — TO AMEND THE JURISDICTION OF COUNTY EQUALIZATION BOARDS WITH RESPECT TO PRODUCING MINERAL RIGHTS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 1659** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1659.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **25–4** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boyd — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-04** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-04** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-07** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-07** Received from the House.
+- **2019-03-07** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-13** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2019-03-13** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-03-13** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2019-03-18** Notification that HB1659 is now Act 509 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/115a8257-4004-4839-a084-3f66e2b7ee97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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