---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE HEARING AND APPEAL OF STATE TAX DISPUTES; AND TO PROVIDE CONFORMING CHANGES RELATED TO THE CREATION OF THE INDEPENDENT TAX APPEALS COMMISSION ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE HEARING AND APPEAL OF STATE TAX DISPUTES; AND TO PROVIDE CONFORMING CHANGES RELATED TO THE CREATION OF THE INDEPENDENT TAX APPEALS COMMISSION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1705"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1705 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dismang", "Jett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T18:16:27+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-06T16:25:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8e79bf5-ee8a-4b6a-98c7-e585651b8d8b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4c4e7f579150f555a34be2ab093c2dcb25698e5077d5a56d2e8dac1fa6ff8088"
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 1705 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE HEARING AND APPEAL OF STATE TAX DISPUTES; AND TO PROVIDE CONFORMING CHANGES RELATED TO THE CREATION OF THE INDEPENDENT TAX APPEALS COMMISSION 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%2FHB1705-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1705** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1705.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Dismang — primary (person)
- Jett — primary (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T18:16:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T23:32:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T21:06:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-17T13:34:23+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-17T13:34:25+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17T18:06:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-18T18:51:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T22:34:45+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-18T22:34:57+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T18:21:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T20:22:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T20:22:56+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:23:02+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:23:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-05T14:50:46+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-06T16:25:06+00:00** Notification that HB1705 is now Act 593 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8e79bf5-ee8a-4b6a-98c7-e585651b8d8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).