---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"TRANSMITTING UTILITY\" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES."
description: "TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF \"TRANSMITTING UTILITY\" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1737"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1737 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dees", "M. Brown"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-11T18:33:20+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:10:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9126c758-cad3-42dd-a37a-c00bfd87ee8f"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9e144c2488e70e635994da41cadc6201af18a884099b9657b9d1ca7a2dc9da52"
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 1737 (2025) — TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "TRANSMITTING UTILITY" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 584** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=584.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1737** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1737.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dees — primary (person)
- M. Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-11T18:33:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-11T21:59:00+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T20:08:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T19:52:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:26:18+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:26:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:36:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T02:28:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T02:29:03+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:28:26+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:28:29+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:28:32+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:10:34+00:00** Notification that HB1737 is now Act 584 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9126c758-cad3-42dd-a37a-c00bfd87ee8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).