---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - STATE PARKS AND TOURISM DIVISIONS DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT APPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - STATE PARKS AND TOURISM DIVISIONS DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1537"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1537 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-23T18:32:25+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-23T14:50:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e2e3c2d-f6bb-458c-b714-80b212f5d6c5"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a792c92eb53c50a55898eb3117f01fa63d26eb047620e7fcc047cdbd57e998fb"
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 1537 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - STATE PARKS AND TOURISM DIVISIONS DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENT APPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1537** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1537.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T18:32:25+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T23:07:15+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`
- **2021-04-15T16:34:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T20:24:16+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2021-04-19T20:24:17+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2021-04-19T20:24:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T20:24:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-19T22:23:51+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:23:59+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-20T22:07:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T22:07:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-20T22:07:03+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:04:55+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:04:58+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:22:21+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-23T14:50:55+00:00** Notification that HB1537 is now Act 862 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e2e3c2d-f6bb-458c-b714-80b212f5d6c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).