---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAKING OF MINERALS, TIMBER, OR OTHER RESOURCES ON STATE-OWNED PROPERTY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAKING OF MINERALS, TIMBER, OR OTHER RESOURCES ON STATE-OWNED PROPERTY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1442"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1442 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "G. Stubblefield"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-08T19:58:18+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-24T20:17:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f60b3fb1-129f-4255-830d-00736e0184d0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "334ab416ceafa17f9dd9f1d82bf9e1c81a077b14fbbd545cc943c81b7599da62"
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 1442 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE TAKING OF MINERALS, TIMBER, OR OTHER RESOURCES ON STATE-OWNED PROPERTY.

## 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%2FHB1442-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1442-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1442-H3.pdf)
4. **HB 1442** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1442.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- G. Stubblefield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08T19:58:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-08T22:42:39+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T14:37:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-02T14:37:31+00:00** Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-02T16:57:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T19:24:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-04T19:24:40+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04T20:10:33+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T20:10:41+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T18:28:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T19:26:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T22:06:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-11T22:06:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T18:07:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22T19:23:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:23:31+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:10:16+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:10:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T14:09:43+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-24T20:17:36+00:00** Notification that HB1442 is now Act 455 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f60b3fb1-129f-4255-830d-00736e0184d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).