---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"HOMESTEAD\" AS USED IN AMENDMENT 79 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR PROPERTY TAX PURPOSES TO INCLUDE THE DWELLING OF A BENEFICIARY OF AN IRREVOCABLE TRUST."
description: "TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"HOMESTEAD\" AS USED IN AMENDMENT 79 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR PROPERTY TAX PURPOSES TO INCLUDE THE DWELLING OF A BENEFICIARY OF AN IRREVOCABLE TRUST."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1449"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1449 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sullivan"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b8596b0-27bf-441c-98b7-ee419e7f3e8c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bbb7954ea58aa5d10dbd4e0240a93ea49668704cbcb64e45c4ccfbe4f089ef06"
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 1449 (2019) — TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "HOMESTEAD" AS USED IN AMENDMENT 79 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION FOR PROPERTY TAX PURPOSES TO INCLUDE THE DWELLING OF A BENEFICIARY OF AN IRREVOCABLE TRUST.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1449-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1449** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1449.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sullivan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** 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`
- **2019-02-27** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-27** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-07** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-11** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-05** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-05** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-05** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-09** Notification that HB1449 is now Act 831 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b8596b0-27bf-441c-98b7-ee419e7f3e8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).