---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE METHOD OF EXECUTION TO INCLUDE NITROGEN GAS."
description: "TO AMEND THE METHOD OF EXECUTION TO INCLUDE NITROGEN GAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1489"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1489 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Wardlaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-14T16:06:24+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T18:47:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/474af5e3-449d-4440-86a1-a17540b0eb67"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3fb39497a03332c6c3ba3d05e5bc92b7a77189378d2fad46d39737d5eacb10d4"
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 1489 (2025) — TO AMEND THE METHOD OF EXECUTION TO INCLUDE NITROGEN GAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 302** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=302.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1489** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1489.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Wardlaw — primary (person)
- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- John Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14T16:06:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T23:19:33+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T17:58:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T20:03:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T22:10:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-04T22:10:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T00:02:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11T20:35:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T20:35:20+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-11T21:35:18+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-11T21:35:20+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-12T12:59:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T18:47:24+00:00** Notification that HB1489 is now Act 302 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/474af5e3-449d-4440-86a1-a17540b0eb67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).