---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1601"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1601 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fdf2bdb-e6ac-4117-bcd8-ed4347f88c02"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "236f2c0834616274e5223dd22131852d7da42904a5f5f5fb5a75eb8ef2de843b"
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 1601 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1601** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1601.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–4** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-03-05** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2019-03-05** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-05** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-05** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-06** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-06** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-06** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-07** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-08** Notification that HB1601 is now Act 411 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fdf2bdb-e6ac-4117-bcd8-ed4347f88c02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).