---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE ENERGY ACT."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE ENERGY ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1665"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1665 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Hawks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-08T20:40:20+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T16:25:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a807f679-0e91-4545-803b-8d2fad042b6f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9a844399089e6792513ceee2ceed2745611777557f7f955a3874523027ef82fe"
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 1665 (2021) — TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE ENERGY ACT.

## 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%2FHB1665-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1665-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1665** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1665.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Hawks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08T20:40:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T22:43:12+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on ENERGY - JOINT `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T13:40:14+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:40:17+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:50:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-01T19:09:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05T13:34:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-05T13:34:41+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-05T16:02:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-06T18:45:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06T23:01:15+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-06T23:01:22+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-08T19:28:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:29:06+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:23:52+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:23:55+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-09T13:31:58+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-13T16:25:03+00:00** Notification that HB1665 is now Act 694 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a807f679-0e91-4545-803b-8d2fad042b6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).