---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO TRANSFER THE NUCLEAR PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO TRANSFER THE NUCLEAR PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1690"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1690 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Pilkington"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-05T19:42:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:10:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e8f47ec-b9a6-48e1-9908-8a73ee57c1d9"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1d6226ee0fd1278528183b29a1718a235b8c72e9bf427a81936a2bcc0ce236c8"
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 1690 (2025) — TO TRANSFER THE NUCLEAR PLANNING AND RESPONSE PROGRAM FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO THE DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 583** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=583.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1690** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1690.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Pilkington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-05T19:42:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-05T23:22:03+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`
- **2025-03-12T23:47:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17T18:49:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T23:16:36+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-17T23:16:42+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:22:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T01:08:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T01:08:13+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-09T01:08:17+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:26:40+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:26:43+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:26:46+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:10:19+00:00** Notification that HB1690 is now Act 583 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e8f47ec-b9a6-48e1-9908-8a73ee57c1d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).