---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1085"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1085 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-05T21:14:10+00:00"
last_action: "2021-01-14T21:09:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8049cf00-33d7-4b2a-9878-e7f67e2948e6"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "eb0a81c380f79dd2aa0f313600d5b3d70367bc07f928193f4d539ddd38b9129a"
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 1085 (2021) — THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1085** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1085.pdf)

## Votes

- EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05T21:14:10+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:35:40+00:00** 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`
- **2021-01-12T17:12:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-13T19:08:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-13T19:09:06+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-13T20:09:58+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-13T20:10:06+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-01-14T19:12:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-14T19:13:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-01-14T19:13:16+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-01-14T19:24:39+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-01-14T19:24:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-01-14T19:35:57+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-01-14T21:09:54+00:00** Notification that HB1085 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/8049cf00-33d7-4b2a-9878-e7f67e2948e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).