---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO BE KNOWN AS THE \"SAFE TRAILS ACT\"; TO PRESERVE, PROMOTE, AND SUSTAIN AN EXCELLENT QUALITY OF LIFE."
description: "TO BE KNOWN AS THE \"SAFE TRAILS ACT\"; TO PRESERVE, PROMOTE, AND SUSTAIN AN EXCELLENT QUALITY OF LIFE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1625"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1625 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haak", "Hester"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-03T20:54:40+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-27T20:08:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/483ad171-5f70-4186-b967-93321ff7b80f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8cb89a4d7e9512ba41cc8e6b1d2f575be6cdace2c19b9fe3f1d02fb1f9a6725b"
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 1625 (2021) — TO BE KNOWN AS THE "SAFE TRAILS ACT"; TO PRESERVE, PROMOTE, AND SUSTAIN AN EXCELLENT QUALITY OF LIFE.

## 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%2FHB1625-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1625-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1625-H3.pdf)
4. **HB 1625** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1625.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Haak — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03T20:54:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-03T22:45:13+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T14:28:28+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-10T14:28:32+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-10T16:01:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-23T13:32:16+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-23T13:32:19+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-23T15:14:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T01:20:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 3 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01T13:34:07+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-01T13:34:11+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-01T16:59:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T18:34:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T21:38:17+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:38:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:06:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22T23:16:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T23:16:11+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:51:49+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:51:52+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:06:19+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-27T20:08:55+00:00** Notification that HB1625 is now Act 963 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/483ad171-5f70-4186-b967-93321ff7b80f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).