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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FRANCHISE PRACTICES ACT; AND TO CLARIFY CHOICE OF LAW CLAUSES IN A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT."
+description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FRANCHISE PRACTICES ACT; AND TO CLARIFY CHOICE OF LAW CLAUSES IN A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1892"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1892 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Richardson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-20"
+last_action: "2019-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b3b3d0a-be46-4979-b8c9-7492d8f4a4d1"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "6e573f2817735af3475f34bd955aa57b8c8c3642ba6a7d9cf88782e2fcbdd806"
+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 1892 (2019) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS FRANCHISE PRACTICES ACT; AND TO CLARIFY CHOICE OF LAW CLAUSES IN A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 1892** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1892.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Richardson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-20** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-20** 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`
+- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-28** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-28** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
+- **2019-04-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-02** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2019-04-03** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-04-03** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2019-04-04** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2019-04-09** Notification that HB1892 is now Act 835 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b3b3d0a-be46-4979-b8c9-7492d8f4a4d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+