---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE JUNK FEE ELIMINATING ACT OF 2025; TO ABOLISH THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO TRANSFER ANY REMAINING DUTIES OF THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS TO THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS."
description: "TO CREATE THE JUNK FEE ELIMINATING ACT OF 2025; TO ABOLISH THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO TRANSFER ANY REMAINING DUTIES OF THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS TO THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1896"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1896 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. McKenzie", "J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-31T14:49:13+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T21:09:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88824c05-77ae-4e8e-993f-54f6fdd3f2cf"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "49a4285db7aa6e1f00fefe0c44c6af67aa2b07313e88446b62401c280d4683b2"
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 1896 (2025) — TO CREATE THE JUNK FEE ELIMINATING ACT OF 2025; TO ABOLISH THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS; AND TO TRANSFER ANY REMAINING DUTIES OF THE INFORMATION NETWORK OF ARKANSAS TO THE DIVISION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 716** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=716.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1896** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1896.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. McKenzie — primary (person)
- J. Dismang — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31T14:49:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-01T02:07:11+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`
- **2025-04-02T19:57:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T21:26:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04T00:19:02+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-04T00:19:09+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:51:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10T03:59:49+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-10T04:00:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T04:01:03+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T14:57:10+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T14:57:13+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T14:57:15+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T21:09:37+00:00** Notification that HB1896 is now Act 716 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88824c05-77ae-4e8e-993f-54f6fdd3f2cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).