---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX ACT OF 1977; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX ACT OF 1977; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1980"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1980 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Davis"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-04-02"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56a0814f-7176-4c44-80b5-4ee77dd6b494"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8e9546206d283718a33909953ee2b4582f44b43268d7678e8ce156d266e4a68f"
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 1980 (2019) — TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX ACT OF 1977; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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=HB1980-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1980** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1980.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and failed. — **46–26** (fail) · lower
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **59–25** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- Emergency clause failed of adoption — **66–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-02** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-04-02** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-05** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-05** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** Motion by Representative Beck to reconsider HB1980 passed
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** Emergency clause failed of adoption
- **2019-04-09** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-09** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-10** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-10** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-10** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-17** Notification that HB1980 is now Act 1071 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56a0814f-7176-4c44-80b5-4ee77dd6b494`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).