---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO ALLOW ELECTRONIC PUBLIC MEETINGS DURING A DECLARED STATE EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO ALLOW ELECTRONIC PUBLIC MEETINGS DURING A DECLARED STATE EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1056"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1056 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Eads", "L. Fite"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-21T17:05:05+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-02T21:33:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ace089b-2652-498b-831c-94942de833e7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b394dec384cb94b181946955c3ef26905ba1c73e015c4e6c50a0e20ea96cd625"
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 1056 (2021) — TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; TO ALLOW ELECTRONIC PUBLIC MEETINGS DURING A DECLARED STATE EMERGENCY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1056** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1056.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- L. Eads — primary (person)
- L. Fite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-21T17:05:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:24:42+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21T18:21:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25T19:17:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25T19:17:43+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-25T21:36:43+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-25T22:23:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T22:40:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-01T20:29:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01T20:29:36+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-01T20:29:53+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-01T21:25:56+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-01T21:25:59+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-01T22:02:20+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-02T21:33:01+00:00** Notification that HB1056 is now Act 56 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ace089b-2652-498b-831c-94942de833e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).