---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS ON THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION'S COMMITTEE."
description: "TO AMEND THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS ON THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION'S COMMITTEE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1487"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1487 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Stone"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-13T21:07:56+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T23:26:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/706ebb9c-66ac-4b3a-9289-902431807e46"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a34fd2544f1ea7e312a1ee692a33961f6640990ec07a1d28f13a4b75e5becc3c"
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 1487 (2025) — TO AMEND THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS ON THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION'S COMMITTEE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 212** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=212.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1487** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1487.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- Stone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13T21:07:56+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-13T23:02:34+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T16:54:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T17:15:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-20T18:52:17+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-20T18:52:26+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T19:55:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T20:32:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T20:32:53+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-26T21:17:42+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-26T21:17:44+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-26T21:17:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-27T23:26:13+00:00** Notification that HB1487 is now Act 212 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/706ebb9c-66ac-4b3a-9289-902431807e46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).