---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - AND ITS VARIOUS DIVISIONS REAPPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - AND ITS VARIOUS DIVISIONS REAPPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1480"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1480 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4456df0-e05b-4798-abaa-329189b80cc3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b2a0d483e614b93c7434c43d8b7110c3a104f1299a02ae8e4c69acef220549a6"
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 1480 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - AND ITS VARIOUS DIVISIONS REAPPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1480** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1480.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** 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`
- **2019-02-19** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-20** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-02-20** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2019-02-20** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-20** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-20** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-21** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2019-02-21** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-21** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-22** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-27** Notification that HB1480 is now Act 230 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4456df0-e05b-4798-abaa-329189b80cc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).