---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO SPECIFY THE TIME WITHIN WHICH ONE MAY SEEK AN OPINION FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON WHETHER THE DECISION OF A PUBLIC-RECORDS CUSTODIAN REGARDING THE RELEASE OF CERTAIN PUBLIC RECORDS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE LAW."
description: "TO SPECIFY THE TIME WITHIN WHICH ONE MAY SEEK AN OPINION FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON WHETHER THE DECISION OF A PUBLIC-RECORDS CUSTODIAN REGARDING THE RELEASE OF CERTAIN PUBLIC RECORDS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE LAW."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1099"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1099 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Collins", "J. Payton"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-10T16:23:06+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-09T22:22:56+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c689c596-9e4a-42b3-be90-091df87e4bdb"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "70b9e2d71e7ac827658baa008b6ea46ee5114c64f0067ccf298507769e978476"
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 1099 (2023) — TO SPECIFY THE TIME WITHIN WHICH ONE MAY SEEK AN OPINION FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON WHETHER THE DECISION OF A PUBLIC-RECORDS CUSTODIAN REGARDING THE RELEASE OF CERTAIN PUBLIC RECORDS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE LAW.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=36.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1099** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1099.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Collins — primary (person)
- J. Payton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10T16:23:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-10T22:44:19+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`
- **2023-01-25T16:52:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26T17:16:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26T20:20:21+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-01-26T20:20:30+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31T17:35:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-06T19:33:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06T19:33:37+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-02-06T20:14:41+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-02-06T20:14:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-02-06T20:48:45+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-02-09T22:22:56+00:00** Notification that HB1099 is now Act 36 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c689c596-9e4a-42b3-be90-091df87e4bdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).