---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE APPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 485"
citation: "Arkansas SB 485 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f637870a-f49d-4927-8f22-b35151f9efa3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c29158ef4645dcaa682e96a9cb2d6d717e9618eabd07ee2afca9783e34c1affa"
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 485 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE 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=SB485-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 485** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB485.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-04** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-05** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-05** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-05** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-05** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-08** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-08** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-08** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-09** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB485 is now Act 885 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f637870a-f49d-4927-8f22-b35151f9efa3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).