---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW REVIEW OF PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS; TO ALLOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REVIEW PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS; AND TO ADDRESS IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER UNDER REVIEW."
description: "TO ALLOW REVIEW OF PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS; TO ALLOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REVIEW PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS; AND TO ADDRESS IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER UNDER REVIEW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1637"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1637 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Garner", "Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T15:58:01+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-08T19:53:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a86e7bff-61e7-4b60-ae68-b66522f124e1"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b1feff4ff755afb1a6c7aa627172514c2ded400437414a35778e013ac63ef87d"
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 1637 (2021) — TO ALLOW REVIEW OF PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS; TO ALLOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REVIEW PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS; AND TO ADDRESS IMPLEMENTATION OF A PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER UNDER REVIEW.

## 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%2FHB1637-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1637** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1637.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–3** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- T. Garner — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04T15:58:01+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T22:46:01+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`
- **2021-03-15T13:34:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:34:28+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:47:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-17T22:50:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:11:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T22:37:18+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-18T22:37:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T18:29:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T20:13:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T20:13:14+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:22:04+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:22:07+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-05T14:50:19+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-08T19:53:15+00:00** Notification that HB1637 is now Act 608 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a86e7bff-61e7-4b60-ae68-b66522f124e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).