---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1122"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1122 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23104490-282e-4c75-ad5f-6b0933d267b8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "16880df31bad764611d10db0082c6465b534f4e41ed645a38c5f151b793d9d72"
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 1122 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## 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=HB1122-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1122** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1122.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-19** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-29** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-29** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-29** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-02** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-02** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-03** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-03** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-04** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-04** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2019-04-04** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-04** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-05** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-11** Notification that HB1122 is now Act 899 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23104490-282e-4c75-ad5f-6b0933d267b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).