---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1056"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1056 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "Hester"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-05T22:11:41+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-11T19:35:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5cf3b22-4dcf-4371-a33c-e09b3c556c87"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "491855da1cdb15ecebf5a42de3504c9cb6c47490a85cb1c82b5fd3cc2b0842ee"
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 1056 (2025) — TO CREATE THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 34** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=34.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1056-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1056** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1056.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-05T22:11:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T21:09:54+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15T19:37:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T17:00:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-16T17:00:20+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-16T17:11:03+00:00** The vote by which HB1056 Passed was expunged.
- **2025-01-16T17:11:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-16T17:11:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-01-16T18:27:23+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-01-16T18:27:43+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T13:59:20+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-01-30T13:59:31+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-01-30T17:12:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-01-30T17:12:18+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T19:18:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-03T20:26:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-03T20:26:28+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-03T20:26:50+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-02-03T21:23:40+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-02-03T21:24:12+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T19:33:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T19:47:29+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-02-06T19:47:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-06T19:47:50+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-11T19:35:43+00:00** Notification that HB1056 is now Act 34 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5cf3b22-4dcf-4371-a33c-e09b3c556c87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).