---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE AND ENCOURAGE THE ARKANSAS STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH AN ANATOMICAL GIFT OPTION FOR ARKANSAS RESIDENTS OBTAINING A HUNTING OR FISHING LICENSE THROUGH THE COMMISSION'S ONLINE SALES SYSTEM."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE AND ENCOURAGE THE ARKANSAS STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH AN ANATOMICAL GIFT OPTION FOR ARKANSAS RESIDENTS OBTAINING A HUNTING OR FISHING LICENSE THROUGH THE COMMISSION'S ONLINE SALES SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1829"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1829 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Whitaker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a23a93f8-51d0-40ca-9bf5-f52bc53b4b44"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "573e575ac447686c243cbb529882c484bb785f2e976fdb5cec525605ed8a4c97"
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 1829 (2019) — TO AUTHORIZE AND ENCOURAGE THE ARKANSAS STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH AN ANATOMICAL GIFT OPTION FOR ARKANSAS RESIDENTS OBTAINING A HUNTING OR FISHING LICENSE THROUGH THE COMMISSION'S ONLINE SALES SYSTEM.

## 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=HB1829-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1829** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1829.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Whitaker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-25** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-26** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-01** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-01** Amendment #1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted.
- **2019-04-01** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-01** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** ORDERED ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-01** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-01** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-02** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-03** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-04-03** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-04** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-08** Notification that HB1829 is now Act 793 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a23a93f8-51d0-40ca-9bf5-f52bc53b4b44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).