---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1875"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1875 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Davis"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-19"
last_action: "2019-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/041ea33f-50b3-4ad0-80b4-50d23c58614a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5de4451f0bbb74dd0bf0f1cd0d724ee2edb683b968dc83851b0d63e00fe9692d"
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 1875 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

## 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=HB1875-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1875** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1875.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-19** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-19** 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`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-28** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2019-04-08** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-08** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-09** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-12** Notification that HB1875 is now Act 978 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/041ea33f-50b3-4ad0-80b4-50d23c58614a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).