---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE - ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE - ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1059"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1059 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-04T16:53:03+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-17T17:36:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffc24250-cd8d-45c7-854d-75fd104a4b00"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "64047c6f225c5f19d5918ab1f39eb684501deb7f28e0d1b05a2d7824a008c231"
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 1059 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF STATE - ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 90** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=90.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1059** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1059.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and failed. — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04T16:53:03+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-09T20:04:27+00:00** 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`
- **2023-02-07T16:54:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-08T20:37:27+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2023-02-08T20:37:28+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2023-02-08T20:37:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-08T20:37:30+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-08T21:58:55+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-02-08T21:59:01+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-09T20:03:26+00:00** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13T19:42:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13T19:42:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-13T19:43:02+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-02-13T20:28:54+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-02-13T20:28:56+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-02-14T13:50:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-02-17T17:36:24+00:00** Notification that HB1059 is now Act 90 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffc24250-cd8d-45c7-854d-75fd104a4b00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).