---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO TRANSFER THE OUACHITA RIVER COMMISSION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO TRANSFER THE OUACHITA RIVER COMMISSION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1726"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1726 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shepherd", "T. Garner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-15T15:24:09+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T18:18:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98ff2605-02e9-4e37-82fb-30861257b52f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f64bbc6c836e006fba04123c65d3900a3c306c587893c37df0362905598ea10d"
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 1726 (2021) — TO TRANSFER THE OUACHITA RIVER COMMISSION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FHB1726-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1726-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1726** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1726.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Shepherd — primary (person)
- T. Garner — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Fielding — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-15T15:24:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-15T22:01:24+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`
- **2021-03-29T14:03:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T14:03:16+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:07:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-30T13:38:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-30T13:38:57+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-30T15:57:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-12T18:01:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-13T18:48:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T18:48:05+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-13T21:21:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-13T21:22:06+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20T18:07:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T21:19:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T21:19:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-21T21:19:58+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-22T00:40:05+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-22T00:40:07+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-22T14:14:14+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-26T18:18:00+00:00** Notification that HB1726 is now Act 928 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98ff2605-02e9-4e37-82fb-30861257b52f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).