---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, GRANTS AND PROGRAMS APPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, GRANTS AND PROGRAMS APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 429"
citation: "Arkansas SB 429 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81ccc219-7933-49fa-9b6d-677b1a21e4e8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9c1ad9490e3f203dc28d85a54d2481e1cf75ccabdbfd0d3774db093b5d0ac019"
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 429 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, GRANTS AND PROGRAMS APPROPRIATION.

## 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=SB429-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 429** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB429.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–6** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and failed. — **41–42** (fail) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-19** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-25** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-25** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-25** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-25** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-26** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-03-26** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-03** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-03** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-03** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-04** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-04** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-10** Notification that SB429 is now Act 771 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81ccc219-7933-49fa-9b6d-677b1a21e4e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).