---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2018F"
identifier: "HB 1002"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1002 (2018F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-02-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db84cfd9-3874-4ae0-b803-8ea98711c15e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f75a911486aa3a8ce21c778682d80d5ae30a855600b87f1aca2c9f51d841c90a"
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 1002 (2018F) — THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1002** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2018F/Public/Searchable/HB1002.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-30** Filed `introduction`
- **2018-02-12** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Received from the House.
- **2018-02-13** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2018-02-14** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2018-02-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2018-02-20** Notification that HB1002 is now Act 1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db84cfd9-3874-4ae0-b803-8ea98711c15e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).