---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE SECURITIES DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE SECURITIES DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1079"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1079 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-05T17:05:10+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-17T17:16:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7592a8cb-7098-445c-8158-8b69a1042f65"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "23a3f0a288344c7fc8ee23a6ceec260613c2b5f8f43d18525ba2a4fa0785d8ca"
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 1079 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - STATE SECURITIES DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 281** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=281.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1079** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1079.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05T17:05:10+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-09T20:12:20+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`
- **2023-01-24T16:35:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25T19:59:09+00:00** Motion to be rereferred back to the committee passed
- **2023-01-25T19:59:18+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09T18:28:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:47:50+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2023-03-13T19:47:51+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2023-03-13T19:47:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T19:47:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-13T21:42:12+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-13T21:42:18+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-14T20:41:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-14T20:41:23+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-14T20:41:25+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-03-14T21:16:22+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-14T21:16:24+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-15T14:58:52+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-17T17:16:33+00:00** Notification that HB1079 is now Act 281 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7592a8cb-7098-445c-8158-8b69a1042f65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).