---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO DESIGNATE THE OFFICIAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS."
description: "TO DESIGNATE THE OFFICIAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1657"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1657 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christiansen", "L. Eads"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T22:22:21+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-22T18:07:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80cb6620-8f40-4e89-aa38-43e95d2a4a9e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "caf021c97882680fad106f7ec70bed779ae320e135423c5618c2453adfa5cb74"
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 1657 (2021) — TO DESIGNATE THE OFFICIAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.

## 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%2FHB1657-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1657** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1657.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christiansen — primary (person)
- L. Eads — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Jett — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04T22:22:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T22:50:49+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09T14:34:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T14:34:43+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T19:11:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-11T19:06:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15T18:33:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T21:50:34+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-15T21:50:48+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T18:38:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17T20:33:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T20:33:35+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:29:59+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:30:01+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-18T13:28:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-22T18:07:19+00:00** Notification that HB1657 is now Act 405 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80cb6620-8f40-4e89-aa38-43e95d2a4a9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).