---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE ARKANSAS CODE REGARDING REGULATION OF IONIZING RADIATION TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS."
description: "TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE ARKANSAS CODE REGARDING REGULATION OF IONIZING RADIATION TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1154"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1154 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Ladyman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-12T16:23:32+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-04T14:59:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ed4c676-29ae-44d6-83de-7eb64083615c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cc627bee51a61ec0eec094f6fc2db76aebf7569f02855a1d1326d940a5222411"
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 1154 (2021) — TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE ARKANSAS CODE REGARDING REGULATION OF IONIZING RADIATION TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1154-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1154** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1154.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Ladyman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12T16:23:32+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T19:54:25+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T19:06:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T14:32:27+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-10T14:32:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-10T17:00:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-22T19:13:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22T22:13:34+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-22T22:13:50+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01T23:11:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02T19:34:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-02T19:34:45+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-02T21:05:48+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-02T21:05:49+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-02T21:32:24+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-04T14:59:26+00:00** Notification that HB1154 is now Act 268 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ed4c676-29ae-44d6-83de-7eb64083615c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).