---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION DIVISION TO ISSUE CERTAIN ANNUAL REPORTS; AND TO PROHIBIT NEW OR UPDATED ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FROM BECOMING EFFECTIVE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL."
description: "TO REQUIRE THE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION DIVISION TO ISSUE CERTAIN ANNUAL REPORTS; AND TO PROHIBIT NEW OR UPDATED ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FROM BECOMING EFFECTIVE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1543"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1543 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Teague", "Vaught"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-23T19:40:08+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-21T18:07:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4aff5d2-d7d5-4768-810e-9465c017ce8c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e8092710e3c4049c31e27fb7273c4f35a458dd05faedfa2f33d173c7254f5c79"
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 1543 (2021) — TO REQUIRE THE ASSESSMENT COORDINATION DIVISION TO ISSUE CERTAIN ANNUAL REPORTS; AND TO PROHIBIT NEW OR UPDATED ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES FROM BECOMING EFFECTIVE UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

## 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%2FHB1543-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1543-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1543** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1543.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Teague — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Slape — cosponsor (person)
- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T19:40:08+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-23T23:08:23+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T21:32:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T18:38:52+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T18:38:54+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T19:05:32+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T19:05:38+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T21:06:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-17T20:27:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T22:42:37+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-17T22:42:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08T13:37:39+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-04-08T13:37:45+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-08T18:15:32+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-08T18:15:47+00:00** Re-referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12T18:16:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-13T19:24:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T19:24:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended, Amendment #1.
- **2021-04-13T21:12:03+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2021-04-13T21:12:09+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-16T00:05:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T18:28:26+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2021-04-19T18:28:29+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-20T14:08:39+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-21T18:07:17+00:00** Notification that HB1543 is now Act 823 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4aff5d2-d7d5-4768-810e-9465c017ce8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).