---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE UNIFORM EASEMENT RELOCATION ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE UNIFORM EASEMENT RELOCATION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1408"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1408 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "M. Brown"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-13T19:11:07+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-10T21:18:17+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5575133-1b36-4125-8b8d-239f5e5fa0a9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4b092be53c3d8d67c508c5d8967bfd59e5d265c7a920bf73fe439af6684af8e3"
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 1408 (2023) — TO CREATE THE UNIFORM EASEMENT RELOCATION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 505** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=505.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1408-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1408** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1408.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–4** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- M. Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13T19:11:07+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-13T22:33:29+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14T18:10:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-15T13:32:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-15T13:32:50+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-15T15:44:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-16T18:52:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T21:16:20+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-16T21:16:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03T17:57:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04T20:37:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T20:37:03+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-04T22:20:42+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-04T22:20:44+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-05T14:09:02+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-10T21:18:17+00:00** Notification that HB1408 is now Act 505 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5575133-1b36-4125-8b8d-239f5e5fa0a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).