---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1949"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1949 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-20T17:23:22+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T21:10:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57346113-7e27-4bf4-b7fd-a6ae4c22bd66"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "813d96a1314c69ae81329a68206d05c33944b80ad759632e3b5a62a3ef0d2d5e"
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 1949 (2021) — TO AMEND THE REVENUE STABILIZATION LAW; 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%2FHB1949-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1949** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1949.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jean — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-20T17:23:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-20T23:10:49+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T16:25:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T18:26:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-26T18:26:45+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-26T19:53:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-26T20:31:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T20:31:15+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-26T23:00:58+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-26T23:01:01+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-27T15:32:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T15:32:27+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-27T15:32:42+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T15:54:43+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T15:54:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-28T16:23:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T21:10:19+00:00** Notification that HB1949 is now Act 1099 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57346113-7e27-4bf4-b7fd-a6ae4c22bd66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).