---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - DIVISION OF LABOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - DIVISION OF LABOR APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2023-2024 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1077"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1077 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-05T16:58:44+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T14:07:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3aef642e-9749-4ffe-96f1-d6e558182229"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "77cc8c3c17764d22458f5b7f4cb51e0f690ffdc29e8a9d5298ff885eddee87fa"
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 1077 (2023) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND LICENSING - DIVISION OF LABOR 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 564** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=564.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1077-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1077** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1077.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05T16:58:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-09T20:11:42+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`
- **2023-02-14T20:05:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-14T20:05:28+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-14T21:03:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-04T19:13:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-05T18:41:57+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2023-04-05T18:41:58+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2023-04-05T18:41:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T18:42:00+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-05T21:25:46+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-05T21:25:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-06T16:41:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T16:41:40+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-06T16:41:42+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:50:31+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:50:32+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T20:14:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T14:07:54+00:00** Notification that HB1077 is now Act 564 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3aef642e-9749-4ffe-96f1-d6e558182229`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).