---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1656"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1656 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Beck"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T17:49:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:08:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34ca005a-20b1-4e42-822a-2cfcf7ab33a1"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b7cc29e42aed4d54f059e0edecf7b0fd3224e00f8bc92e6aca9519e3f092e78d"
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 1656 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW REGARDING OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1024** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1024.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1656-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1656-S2.pdf)
4. **HB 1656** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1656.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04T17:49:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T23:30:41+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`
- **2025-03-12T18:41:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T20:23:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T22:42:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-13T22:42:14+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T13:03:09+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-19T13:03:43+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-19T18:39:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-19T18:39:14+00:00** Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T13:36:28+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 2
- **2025-04-01T13:36:34+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-01T18:56:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T18:56:12+00:00** Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:30:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T03:29:39+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-10T03:41:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T03:41:43+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
- **2025-04-10T15:00:41+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
- **2025-04-10T15:00:47+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T19:01:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T19:52:26+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-15T19:53:19+00:00** Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-15T19:53:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T13:31:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-22T21:08:35+00:00** Notification that HB1656 is now Act 1024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34ca005a-20b1-4e42-822a-2cfcf7ab33a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).