---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO RELOCATE TO THE STATE."
description: "TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO RELOCATE TO THE STATE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1802"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1802 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Petty", "Warren"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T15:04:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:12:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0336642a-9d12-46a1-8d65-05671918e906"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3575241edcd88c6d554ac2248669a02941d8a72067fb62d267612f58bbd1f4c6"
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 1802 (2025) — TO CREATE THE TALENT RECRUITMENT GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO RELOCATE TO THE STATE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 606** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=606.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1802** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1802.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Petty — primary (person)
- Warren — primary (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McGruder — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T15:04:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:47:17+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T21:01:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T20:04:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:30:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:30:11+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:10:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T01:22:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T01:22:52+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:31:01+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:31:03+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:31:06+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:12:07+00:00** Notification that HB1802 is now Act 606 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0336642a-9d12-46a1-8d65-05671918e906`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).