---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE AUDIT TO CONDUCT A REVIEW OF SELECTED POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND TRANSACTIONS OF REGIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS."
description: "TO REQUIRE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE AUDIT TO CONDUCT A REVIEW OF SELECTED POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND TRANSACTIONS OF REGIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1459"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1459 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Hodges"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91b69195-b514-43e3-b094-73a29774936c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0df31dc262c197bd21e711d2c761cabe1fa86b461c79ff9408ad2bcfdad836d1"
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 1459 (2019) — TO REQUIRE ARKANSAS LEGISLATIVE AUDIT TO CONDUCT A REVIEW OF SELECTED POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND TRANSACTIONS OF REGIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS.

## 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=HB1459-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1459** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1459.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **23–7** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- G. Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** 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`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Rules suspended.
- **2019-03-26** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-26** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Rules suspended.
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-26** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-03-28** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-03-28** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-29** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-01** Notification that HB1459 is now Act 643 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91b69195-b514-43e3-b094-73a29774936c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).