---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1037"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1037 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-12-19"
last_action: "2019-01-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1558ac43-7d90-4b08-93b0-afd578f82343"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7905cf871ac489d2a75609bbe255b7b75d6ab53fd5bd63d917bed1b7a6a80d2d"
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 1037 (2019) — THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1037** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1037.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-19** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-15** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-15** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-01-15** Received from the House.
- **2019-01-15** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-01-16** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-16** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-01-16** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-01-16** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-01-16** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-01-17** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-01-18** Notification that HB1037 is now Act 1 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1558ac43-7d90-4b08-93b0-afd578f82343`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).