---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DESIGN."
description: "TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DESIGN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1463"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1463 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09T21:52:16+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T18:20:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/556ac37d-81a1-4929-8acb-23f5102e0680"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0ec6aa6eb2ee26a62adc9cdb59c2f83546781f99415e7f4e03e7ad79a415905f"
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 1463 (2021) — TO CLARIFY THE LAW CONCERNING MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DESIGN.

## 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%2FHB1463-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1463-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1463** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1463.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09T21:52:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-09T22:21:26+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`
- **2021-03-01T22:39:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-04T19:23:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-04T19:23:23+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04T20:11:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T20:31:01+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T13:33:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-17T13:33:50+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17T18:05:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T22:50:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01T19:23:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T21:09:12+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-01T21:09:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T19:15:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15T20:14:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T20:15:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:31:34+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:31:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-16T13:40:49+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-20T18:20:08+00:00** Notification that HB1463 is now Act 806 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/556ac37d-81a1-4929-8acb-23f5102e0680`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).