---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WATER AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ACT; AND TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION FOR VEGETATION DISPOSAL BURNING BY CERTAIN ENTITIES."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WATER AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ACT; AND TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION FOR VEGETATION DISPOSAL BURNING BY CERTAIN ENTITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1137"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1137 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Cavenaugh"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-17T16:13:30+00:00"
last_action: "2023-01-30T22:19:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32e25ede-671a-43ce-be38-882962851c5e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a249e96ecc17e42c4717f726ffb35fc61148e86068cb5035bf1081065102124b"
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 1137 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS WATER AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ACT; AND TO CREATE AN EXCEPTION FOR VEGETATION DISPOSAL BURNING BY CERTAIN ENTITIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 27** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=27.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1137-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1137** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1137.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Cavenaugh — primary (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17T16:13:30+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-17T20:03:47+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18T14:32:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-01-18T14:32:39+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-18T15:52:43+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-01-19T17:04:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23T19:50:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-23T21:14:28+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-01-23T21:14:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25T19:10:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-26T17:23:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26T17:23:26+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-01-26T19:06:58+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-01-26T19:07:00+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-01-26T20:03:52+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-01-30T22:19:09+00:00** Notification that HB1137 is now Act 27 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32e25ede-671a-43ce-be38-882962851c5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).