---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS BASED ON CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS BASED ON CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1460"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1460 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Dotson", "Rose"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T15:25:02+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T19:01:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b423401-a022-4642-9226-40b58bc51097"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "64f2e381d3b65aee425d957d4affa65901dd2776ee4e8da9bfbd1e894b0117ec"
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 1460 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING APPOINTMENTS TO CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COUNCILS BASED ON CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 324** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=324.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1460-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1460** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1460.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Dotson — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12T15:25:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-12T23:33:53+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T19:51:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T14:32:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-20T14:32:21+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:20:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-26T20:17:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T23:35:02+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-26T23:35:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T18:49:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12T20:53:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T20:53:43+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:03:29+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:03:32+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T13:27:58+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T19:01:36+00:00** Notification that HB1460 is now Act 324 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b423401-a022-4642-9226-40b58bc51097`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).