---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE RESOURCE ACT; AND TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE OFFICER, ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS CITED, AND THE JUDICIAL VENUE WHERE CITATIONS ARE FILED."
description: "TO AMEND THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE RESOURCE ACT; AND TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE OFFICER, ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS CITED, AND THE JUDICIAL VENUE WHERE CITATIONS ARE FILED."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1664"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1664 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-08T19:48:07+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-19T18:13:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbd03e1d-2d63-4009-a399-b8f272748dce"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bb690ae00aa90e5f717f94a6a5399ae83f39778041342d167f344b22edbd3973"
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 1664 (2021) — TO AMEND THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE RESOURCE ACT; AND TO CLARIFY THE AUTHORITY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE OFFICER, ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS CITED, AND THE JUDICIAL VENUE WHERE CITATIONS ARE FILED.

## 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%2FHB1664-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1664** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1664.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08T19:48:07+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T22:42:54+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T13:57:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T13:57:40+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:07:34+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-01T19:01:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05T19:07:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T21:40:08+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:41:54+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:45:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14T19:36:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T19:37:09+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T21:59:29+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T21:59:32+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T13:43:20+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-19T18:13:34+00:00** Notification that HB1664 is now Act 749 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbd03e1d-2d63-4009-a399-b8f272748dce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).