---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1970"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1970 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Meeks"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-01"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29771a36-3d1a-4ea1-b6bf-19b84c0de2fe"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a2e6d50c982f2d220f8ba67161c87691bb38e5028550c14229dff71c43a31cc9"
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 1970 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1970** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1970.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- S. Meeks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-01** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-04-01** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-05** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-05** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-09** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-09** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2019-04-09** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-09** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-17** Notification that HB1970 is now Act 1069 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29771a36-3d1a-4ea1-b6bf-19b84c0de2fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).