---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND FOREST MAINTENANCE INCOME TAX CREDIT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND FOREST MAINTENANCE INCOME TAX CREDIT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1657"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1657 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Beck"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T17:50:58+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T21:06:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3baa2721-3017-4fff-9623-6dd94fd282af"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cb4d1dcb69cf980af6c958dea8173a3a10fbe747fdc95b543b6ff443b58c7c56"
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 1657 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WOOD ENERGY PRODUCTS AND FOREST MAINTENANCE INCOME TAX CREDIT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 709** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=709.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1657-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1657** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1657.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Beck — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- Magie — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McGruder — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04T17:50:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T23:30:53+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T16:30:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T13:34:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-02T13:34:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-02T16:16:19+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-03T19:35:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04T00:08:49+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-04T00:08:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T18:23:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T23:42:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T23:42:45+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T01:35:46+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T01:35:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T15:53:12+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T21:06:11+00:00** Notification that HB1657 is now Act 709 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3baa2721-3017-4fff-9623-6dd94fd282af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).