---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; TO CLARIFY THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; TO CLARIFY THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1488"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1488 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore", "Gonzales"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-10T20:33:37+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T18:02:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b18c03a-5636-4526-88d4-0114cc9ba8a1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7e4004d9329605500fe29d3af589e599fd21d1345b6ca89b10c1e0015e8792fc"
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 1488 (2021) — TO AMEND CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF ARKANSAS CODE THAT RESULTED FROM INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; TO CLARIFY THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FHB1488-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1488** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1488.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **74–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Gonzales — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10T20:33:37+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-10T23:22:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23T14:26:24+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-23T14:26:28+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-23T16:33:36+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-25T19:08:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-01T19:42:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01T19:42:17+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-01T22:43:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-01T22:43:42+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T00:11:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11T21:38:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T21:38:43+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-11T21:38:55+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-11T23:29:22+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-11T23:29:23+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-12T15:46:07+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T18:02:29+00:00** Notification that HB1488 is now Act 353 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b18c03a-5636-4526-88d4-0114cc9ba8a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).