---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVES THAT ADDRESS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FACILITIES APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS AND LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION."
description: "CONCERNING ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVES THAT ADDRESS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FACILITIES APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS AND LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1242"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1242 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tosh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-02-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6184dcb7-2e41-425f-be32-80013a153a81"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8d6d06ce2407880ce31d3cb1b6ae6cf4296ea5a75bf36b53678cee2f543190b4"
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 1242 (2019) — CONCERNING ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVES THAT ADDRESS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FACILITIES APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS AND LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1242** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1242.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **72–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tosh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-24** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** Received from the House.
- **2019-01-31** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-13** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-02-13** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-13** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-15** Notification that HB1242 is now Act 159 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6184dcb7-2e41-425f-be32-80013a153a81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).