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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO EXECUTE A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARKANSAS SPACEPORT."
+description: "TO EXECUTE A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARKANSAS SPACEPORT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1499"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1499 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "Pilkington"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-02-23T21:00:54+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-04T20:55:21+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38aaf96d-0cc0-4525-9586-94ed60231edc"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "ce2239df5d8cc864fcf1c01b87b6cb1d4533085b0430f9dff8d62016edb46745"
+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 1499 (2023) — TO EXECUTE A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARKANSAS SPACEPORT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 477** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=477.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1499-H1.pdf)
+3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1499-S1.pdf)
+4. **HB 1499** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1499.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–3** (pass) · lower
+- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **89–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. Boyd — primary (person)
+- Pilkington — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-23T21:00:54+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-23T21:51:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-28T17:34:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-01T14:34:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-01T14:34:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-01T16:11:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-02T20:55:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-02T21:56:33+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-02T21:56:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-06T19:29:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-07T19:31:31+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-07T19:31:36+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-03-07T21:43:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-08T20:23:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-08T20:23:24+00:00** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
+- **2023-03-08T20:59:22+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2023-03-08T20:59:30+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28T17:32:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-29T18:53:01+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
+- **2023-03-29T18:53:04+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-30T14:19:06+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-04T20:55:21+00:00** Notification that HB1499 is now Act 477 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38aaf96d-0cc0-4525-9586-94ed60231edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+