---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 225"
citation: "Arkansas SB 225 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Pitsch"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e77a3f41-c1a7-4278-b3e2-146b15d61059"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2cc53022d0f2f85ff37e05c26bf94be95ebdfe162e8355bd506893cc380f4a51"
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 SB 225 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 225** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB225.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- M. Pitsch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-06** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-06** 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`
- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-19** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-19** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-02-20** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-02-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-26** Notification that SB225 is now Act 202 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e77a3f41-c1a7-4278-b3e2-146b15d61059`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).