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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REQUIRE ALL OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS TO BE RECORDED."
+description: "TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REQUIRE ALL OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS TO BE RECORDED."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1928"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1928 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["V. Flowers"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-26"
+last_action: "2019-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/297667cf-d01f-4336-8d66-d124507e844d"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "e3a8fced47327ad6e91dff264ff22e6159b31658d77296b74ead15f1333c566b"
+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 1928 (2019) — TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REQUIRE ALL OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS TO BE RECORDED.
+
+## 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=HB1928-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **HB 1928** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1928.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **19–3** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and failed. — **16–0** (fail) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- V. Flowers — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-26** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-26** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2019-04-02** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-04-02** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-02** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-03** Received from the House.
+- **2019-04-03** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-09** Motion to Expunge the Vote
+- **2019-04-09** The vote by which HB1928 Failed to Pass was expunged.
+- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-10** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2019-04-10** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-04-10** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2019-04-15** Notification that HB1928 is now Act 1028 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/297667cf-d01f-4336-8d66-d124507e844d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+