---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY THE AUDITS AND DUTIES OF THE INTERNAL AUDIT SECTION; TO GRANT THE INTERNAL AUDIT SECTION SUBPOENA POWER; AND TO REQUIRE UNIFORMITY IN ALL AUDITS CONDUCTED IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH."
description: "TO MODIFY THE AUDITS AND DUTIES OF THE INTERNAL AUDIT SECTION; TO GRANT THE INTERNAL AUDIT SECTION SUBPOENA POWER; AND TO REQUIRE UNIFORMITY IN ALL AUDITS CONDUCTED IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1559"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1559 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Sturch", "M. Gray"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24T20:34:47+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T18:27:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a528020-063e-4af8-a6f1-97fd9b6c648c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bcb29ae92c1da5cef4cf54cdd91dc60a8bf79274e4a004f367186877c8764c91"
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 1559 (2021) — TO MODIFY THE AUDITS AND DUTIES OF THE INTERNAL AUDIT SECTION; TO GRANT THE INTERNAL AUDIT SECTION SUBPOENA POWER; AND TO REQUIRE UNIFORMITY IN ALL AUDITS CONDUCTED IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

## 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%2FHB1559-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1559** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1559.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Sturch — primary (person)
- M. Gray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24T20:34:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T22:39:37+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T13:33:25+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-17T13:33:27+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17T18:05:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-22T18:02:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23T20:55:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T19:05:34+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-29T19:05:50+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T22:52:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07T20:12:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T20:12:59+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-07T22:01:10+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-07T22:01:11+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-08T14:43:30+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-12T18:27:11+00:00** Notification that HB1559 is now Act 671 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a528020-063e-4af8-a6f1-97fd9b6c648c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).