---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE SMALL TOWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE SMALL TOWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1264"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1264 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Pilkington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25T20:22:45+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-05T18:11:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6e39769-9dbe-4b40-9653-848d933c36c1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7a8c6f565a3f5d03e978f9add962a6d3f79175f5d056c3be2c4e659cdbdc9a61"
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 1264 (2021) — TO CREATE THE SMALL TOWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT.

## 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%2FHB1264-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1264-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1264** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1264.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **32–3** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Pilkington — primary (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- T. Garner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T20:22:45+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T21:42:03+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T13:42:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-16T13:42:46+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-16T16:22:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-22T21:54:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23T13:32:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-23T13:32:53+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-23T15:14:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T18:31:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T22:53:16+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-29T22:53:34+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30T18:16:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31T20:18:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T20:18:16+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:44:46+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-31T21:44:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-01T13:48:48+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-05T18:11:11+00:00** Notification that HB1264 is now Act 568 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6e39769-9dbe-4b40-9653-848d933c36c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).