---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE SOURCE OF FUNDING THAT MAY BE USED TO MANAGE, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A MULTIDISTRICT VOCATIONAL CENTER UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
description: "TO AMEND THE SOURCE OF FUNDING THAT MAY BE USED TO MANAGE, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A MULTIDISTRICT VOCATIONAL CENTER UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1501"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1501 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "L. Fite"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-22T15:50:08+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-01T17:09:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f802074-0d5f-4f24-a2f0-85701a4f8a35"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b014df776fe6056a60f9ba52a91a9db1c8e7591dccf14fa96f3a83ecfc0089eb"
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 1501 (2021) — TO AMEND THE SOURCE OF FUNDING THAT MAY BE USED TO MANAGE, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A MULTIDISTRICT VOCATIONAL CENTER UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

## 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%2FHB1501-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1501** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1501.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- L. Fite — primary (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22T15:50:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T22:04:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04T18:07:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08T14:33:03+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-08T14:33:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-08T18:38:17+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T19:18:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T22:40:52+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-09T22:41:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T23:11:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T20:41:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T20:41:50+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:04:54+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:04:57+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T13:43:44+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-01T17:09:06+00:00** Notification that HB1501 is now Act 507 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f802074-0d5f-4f24-a2f0-85701a4f8a35`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).