---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS RELATED TO A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS FIRE PREVENTION CODE."
description: "TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS RELATED TO A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS FIRE PREVENTION CODE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1991"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1991 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Childress", "J. Bryant"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-07T13:48:14+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:07:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6db68451-9892-4766-908d-cd8de20abb1e"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3489852e2f94876561128c170dc73b76b7941d6fd7a8594844c9dc8f1bfa4486"
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 1991 (2025) — TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS RELATED TO A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE ARKANSAS FIRE PREVENTION CODE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 1020** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=1020.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1991** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1991.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Childress — primary (person)
- J. Bryant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-07T13:48:14+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-04-08T01:03:40+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T20:05:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10T21:32:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T23:23:21+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-10T23:23:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T15:38:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16T16:47:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T16:47:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T17:24:45+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T17:24:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T17:24:50+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-22T21:07:38+00:00** Notification that HB1991 is now Act 1020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6db68451-9892-4766-908d-cd8de20abb1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).