---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - DIVISION OF HERITAGE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - DIVISION OF HERITAGE APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1179"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1179 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-20T17:36:43+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-06T20:58:49+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b81120b-d9ee-4667-96c9-a0a6ec835926"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9814dcf68b38d2290ca6f9b48984a2939a8265290413dbe41cbe8e4c1b3e116a"
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 1179 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM - DIVISION OF HERITAGE 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 479** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=479.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1179-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1179** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1179.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-20T17:36:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-23T20:00:41+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`
- **2023-03-28T22:59:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-29T19:56:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-29T19:56:02+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-29T21:07:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-30T19:27:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30T19:27:48+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-31T01:37:18+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-31T17:37:24+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-03T21:31:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-03T21:31:21+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-03T21:31:23+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-03T22:50:15+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-03T22:50:17+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-04T15:29:28+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-06T20:58:49+00:00** Notification that HB1179 is now Act 479 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b81120b-d9ee-4667-96c9-a0a6ec835926`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).