---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1896"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1896 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gates"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-20"
last_action: "2019-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53a21ca0-114d-4313-a93e-5a2e7ce1d982"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "260ec8cb864eef2478d3049a701c6aad9963f9b2dd906b1b5c0da533abcc8412"
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 1896 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT 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=HB1896-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1896** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1896.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gates — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-20** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-20** 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`
- **2019-03-25** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-27** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-04** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-08** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-08** Re-referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-10** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-04-10** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-15** Notification that HB1896 is now Act 1025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53a21ca0-114d-4313-a93e-5a2e7ce1d982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).