---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE OFFICE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM."
description: "TO CREATE THE OFFICE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1607"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1607 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Rose"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-26T21:41:56+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T19:00:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3d8115d-c79f-475b-afda-edee83df5af6"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9b54eb25c5d38514c59fec9b1dff298edd72015ce4f3c3bf1635d737deb05f22"
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 1607 (2025) — TO CREATE THE OFFICE OF OUTDOOR RECREATION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, HERITAGE, AND TOURISM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 318** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=318.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1607** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1607.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26T21:41:56+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-26T23:35:32+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`
- **2025-03-05T20:20:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:33:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T23:18:07+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-06T23:18:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T18:50:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12T21:17:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T21:17:10+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:05:16+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:05:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T15:00:25+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T19:00:36+00:00** Notification that HB1607 is now Act 318 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3d8115d-c79f-475b-afda-edee83df5af6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).