---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1797"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1797 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-14T21:04:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:35:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2dbff96-ed37-4262-b7f0-33df0f435929"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "daf8e4aac0cf725cb5f3eec66dfbb5c42eed0a4bc2a8cd697a3de0e2c7151261"
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 1797 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AUTHORITY; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 944** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=944.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1797-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1797-S2.pdf)
4. **HB 1797** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1797.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-14T21:04:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:46:12+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`
- **2025-04-01T02:04:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T20:53:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T20:53:46+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-02T00:25:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:26:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04T00:25:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T13:47:12+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:47:18+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-08T01:23:28+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-09T03:58:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T03:58:42+00:00** Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
- **2025-04-09T04:00:32+00:00** Sounding of the Ballot requested on the passage of HB1797. Five Hands were Seen.
- **2025-04-09T04:01:47+00:00** Upon Sounding of the Ballot HB1797 failed.
- **2025-04-09T04:02:12+00:00** Motion for Clincher. Motion failed.
- **2025-04-09T04:03:09+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1797 failed to pass. Motion carried.
- **2025-04-09T19:53:44+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-09T19:53:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-09T19:53:56+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-09T21:01:53+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-10T03:42:42+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-10T03:43:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T03:43:34+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-10T03:43:53+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
- **2025-04-10T15:01:23+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
- **2025-04-10T15:01:28+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T21:23:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T20:02:00+00:00** Senate Amendment #1 read and concurred in and the Emergency Clause
- **2025-04-15T20:02:19+00:00** Senate Amendment #2 read and concurred in and the Emergency Clause
- **2025-04-15T20:02:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T13:27:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:35:39+00:00** Notification that HB1797 is now Act 944 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2dbff96-ed37-4262-b7f0-33df0f435929`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).