---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION AND HONOR OF MAURICE LEE “FOOTSIE” BRITT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION AND HONOR OF MAURICE LEE “FOOTSIE” BRITT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1803"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1803 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Joey Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T15:44:50+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T20:45:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98fc315a-5a32-4869-8503-7c473849a064"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "73774f103f32fe222ab00c862599dd784867e39b78857c56642ef6dd10de005d"
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 1803 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE PLACEMENT OF A MONUMENT ON THE STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS IN RECOGNITION AND HONOR OF MAURICE LEE “FOOTSIE” BRITT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 657** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=657.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1803-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1803** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1803.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Joey Carr — primary (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17T15:44:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:47:27+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`
- **2025-03-19T21:11:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T20:50:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:29:34+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:29:43+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T13:36:51+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-04-01T13:36:57+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-01T18:56:28+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T18:56:34+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:48:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T01:25:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T01:25:48+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-09T15:57:14+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-10T19:37:40+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-10T19:37:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T19:37:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T20:45:57+00:00** Notification that HB1803 is now Act 657 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98fc315a-5a32-4869-8503-7c473849a064`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).