---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY REVENUE INTEREST INCOME; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FUTURE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH FUND AND THE TRANSPORTATION-RELATED GRANT PROGRAM."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY REVENUE INTEREST INCOME; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FUTURE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH FUND AND THE TRANSPORTATION-RELATED GRANT PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1782"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1782 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beck", "M. Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-18T14:09:48+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-25T18:13:42+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d544a92-3776-4087-a40d-2df8487f26a0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d581756816d457f9e6ea32010f83d44da3a05cfc4c07999ea4ccb2b9c122dedb"
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 1782 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HIGHWAY REVENUE INTEREST INCOME; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FUTURE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH FUND AND THE TRANSPORTATION-RELATED GRANT PROGRAM.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1782** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1782.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beck — primary (person)
- M. Johnson — primary (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-18T14:09:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-18T22:17:41+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`
- **2021-04-06T17:07:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T18:38:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:13:14+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:13:27+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T19:20:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20T21:21:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T21:21:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:07:01+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:07:04+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:21:08+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-25T18:13:42+00:00** Notification that HB1782 is now Act 884 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d544a92-3776-4087-a40d-2df8487f26a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).