---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE EXTENSION AND REPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES."
description: "CONCERNING THE EXTENSION AND REPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1217"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1217 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dotson", "J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T19:44:23+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-04T19:33:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/716a4a78-6fc3-47a0-8e1b-8127d5b68b5d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "152ea3af32c4d2475c60d6d2948c33e5b504bdcc88a5ca8a78d83f5fc97ca77f"
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 1217 (2021) — CONCERNING THE EXTENSION AND REPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE RULES.

## 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%2FHB1217-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1217** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1217.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

- Dotson — primary (person)
- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T19:44:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T21:34:42+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`
- **2021-01-21T18:22:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25T14:35:27+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-25T14:35:30+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-25T16:41:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-26T19:20:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-26T21:20:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-26T21:20:15+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28T22:37:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-01T20:48:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01T20:48:22+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-01T21:26:26+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-01T21:26:28+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-01T22:02:43+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-04T19:33:58+00:00** Notification that HB1217 is now Act 65 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/716a4a78-6fc3-47a0-8e1b-8127d5b68b5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).