---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2020F"
identifier: "HB 1003"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1003 (2020F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-02"
last_action: "2020-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/366144f3-74d2-44cd-ad7c-71cca9dd9d2b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "41501f6d312330f7ad2d08f7d1737b5a7292dbd799454a193915243a38b9049e"
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 1003 (2020F) — THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2020-2021 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1003** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2020F/Public/Searchable/HB1003.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-04-02** Filed `introduction`
- **2020-04-08** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2020-04-08** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-04-15** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-04-15** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2020-04-15** Received from the House.
- **2020-04-15** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-04-16** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-04-16** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2020-04-16** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2020-04-16** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2020-04-16** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2020-04-16** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2020-04-16** Notification that HB1003 is now Act 1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/366144f3-74d2-44cd-ad7c-71cca9dd9d2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).