republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1980.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX ACT OF 1977; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX ACT OF 1977; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1980	Arkansas HB 1980 (2019)	bill		enacted	A. Davis	2	22	4	2019-04-02	2019-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/56a0814f-7176-4c44-80b5-4ee77dd6b494	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	8e9546206d283718a33909953ee2b4582f44b43268d7678e8ce156d266e4a68f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1980 (2019) — TO AMEND THE UNFAIR CIGARETTE SALES ACT; TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TOBACCO PRODUCTS TAX ACT OF 1977; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1980 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and failed. — 46–26 (fail) · lower
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 59–25 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 31–1 (pass) · upper
• Emergency clause failed of adoption — 66–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Davis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-02 Filed introduction
• 2019-04-02 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2019-04-05 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2019-04-05 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-05 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-04-08 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2019-04-09 Motion by Representative Beck to reconsider HB1980 passed
• 2019-04-09 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-09 Emergency clause failed of adoption
• 2019-04-09 Received from the House.
• 2019-04-09 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-09 Re-referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-10 Rules suspended.
• 2019-04-10 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-10 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2019-04-10 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-04-10 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-04-10 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-04-17 Notification that HB1980 is now Act 1071 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56a0814f-7176-4c44-80b5-4ee77dd6b494. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).