---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL MOTTO OF THE UNITED STATES, \"IN GOD WE TRUST\"."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL MOTTO OF THE UNITED STATES, \"IN GOD WE TRUST\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1607"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1607 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dotson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e092ddb4-0e1a-4571-8646-73c10905c744"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "52584147bd19d7b1cb8d5b1827b0aff5351aa2dbbe13b5e8b03eda1eb222f3d4"
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 1607 (2019) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL MOTTO OF THE UNITED STATES, "IN GOD WE TRUST".

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1607** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1607.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **69–10** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-20** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-27** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-27** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-28** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-29** Notification that HB1607 is now Act 604 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e092ddb4-0e1a-4571-8646-73c10905c744`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).