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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REQUIRE THE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION DIVISION TO ISSUE CERTAIN ANNUAL REPORTS; AND TO PROHIBIT NEW OR UPDATED ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FROM BECOMING EFFECTIVE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL."
+description: "TO REQUIRE THE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION DIVISION TO ISSUE CERTAIN ANNUAL REPORTS; AND TO PROHIBIT NEW OR UPDATED ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FROM BECOMING EFFECTIVE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1543"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1543 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Teague", "Vaught"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-02-23T19:40:08+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-21T18:07:17+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4aff5d2-d7d5-4768-810e-9465c017ce8c"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "e8092710e3c4049c31e27fb7273c4f35a458dd05faedfa2f33d173c7254f5c79"
+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 1543 (2021) — TO REQUIRE THE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION DIVISION TO ISSUE CERTAIN ANNUAL REPORTS; AND TO PROHIBIT NEW OR UPDATED ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FROM BECOMING EFFECTIVE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1543-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1543-S1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1543** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1543.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Teague — primary (person)
+- Vaught — primary (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rice — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Slape — cosponsor (person)
+- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-23T19:40:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-23T23:08:23+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-11T21:32:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-15T18:38:52+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-15T18:38:54+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-15T19:05:32+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-15T19:05:38+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16T21:06:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-17T20:27:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-17T22:42:37+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-03-17T22:42:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-08T13:37:39+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
+- **2021-04-08T13:37:45+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-08T18:15:32+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-08T18:15:47+00:00** Re-referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-12T18:16:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-13T19:24:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-13T19:24:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1.
+- **2021-04-13T21:12:03+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-04-13T21:12:09+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-16T00:05:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-19T18:28:26+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-19T18:28:29+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-20T14:08:39+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-21T18:07:17+00:00** Notification that HB1543 is now Act 823 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4aff5d2-d7d5-4768-810e-9465c017ce8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+