---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE REAPPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE REAPPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1399"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1399 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-03T18:24:21+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T19:06:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5c765dd-61a5-4d23-bc41-6e8958d3aef8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "37bc9c4c92b31c375770131662d319c312a9c8d8ef1f7728d9a94b50d87d18ad"
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 1399 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE REAPPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1399** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1399.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T18:24:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T22:42:28+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`
- **2021-02-10T17:06:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22T20:04:59+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-02-22T20:05:00+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-02-22T20:05:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22T20:05:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-22T22:30:16+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-22T22:30:24+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-24T21:15:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T21:15:44+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-24T21:15:46+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:35:42+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:35:44+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T14:53:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-01T19:06:34+00:00** Notification that HB1399 is now Act 197 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5c765dd-61a5-4d23-bc41-6e8958d3aef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).