---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN TYPES OF LOCAL REGULATION OF UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE FACILITIES, FUEL RETAILERS, AND RELATED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE."
description: "TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN TYPES OF LOCAL REGULATION OF UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE FACILITIES, FUEL RETAILERS, AND RELATED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1572"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1572 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawk", "Irvin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-07T20:27:51+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T16:55:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea2b6e4c-865a-4d61-99fd-14a635984547"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4ee57f125ba6431ec434f93e4496c0733dc842511ef92641ae778e45920d6eef"
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 1572 (2023) — TO PROHIBIT CERTAIN TYPES OF LOCAL REGULATION OF UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE FACILITIES, FUEL RETAILERS, AND RELATED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 551** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=551.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1572-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1572** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1572.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawk — primary (person)
- Irvin — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-07T20:27:51+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-07T22:40:00+00:00** 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`
- **2023-03-29T17:03:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-30T13:34:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-30T13:34:04+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-30T16:38:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-03T19:38:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T00:13:57+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-04T00:14:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04T17:49:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T00:56:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T00:56:40+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-06T02:59:24+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T02:59:26+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:52:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T16:55:55+00:00** Notification that HB1572 is now Act 551 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea2b6e4c-865a-4d61-99fd-14a635984547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).