---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1617"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1617 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27T19:20:26+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T19:06:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e12c6c3-884e-4e37-a3ec-30f92268fdfb"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "242f7fee8a5025bd3e8e875e0114f67c15d60f3164e0b4b613fd2a5e6f6b7d85"
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 1617 (2025) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 339** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=339.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1617** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1617.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27T19:20:26+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-27T23:17:38+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T17:56:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T19:40:59+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-03-12T19:41:00+00:00** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2025-03-12T19:41:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T19:41:02+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-12T21:36:14+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-12T21:36:18+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-13T20:43:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T20:43:09+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-13T20:43:11+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-03-13T22:10:10+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-13T22:10:12+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-14T13:15:30+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T19:06:18+00:00** Notification that HB1617 is now Act 339 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e12c6c3-884e-4e37-a3ec-30f92268fdfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).