republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1480.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT SECRETARIES; AND TO REQUIRE THE SECRETARY OF A CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT SECRETARIES; AND TO REQUIRE THE SECRETARY OF A CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1480	Arkansas HB 1480 (2021)	bill		enacted	Beckham M. Berry	2	16	2	2021-02-10T20:10:48+00:00	2021-03-22T18:18:57+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/77e70b5d-820b-46c7-9227-e535e7a68ae5	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	49d734120cfc306c29fc9976775709e8ab15c7f987e2c4db073abc710f6c34ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1480 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT SECRETARIES; AND TO REQUIRE THE SECRETARY OF A CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1480 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 88–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Beckham — primary (person)
• M. Berry — primary (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• Slape — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-10T20:10:48+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-10T23:20:04+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
• 2021-03-03T17:30:25+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-03-04T14:29:26+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-04T14:29:30+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-04T16:47:07+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-08T20:13:49+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-08T23:40:16+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-08T23:40:31+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11T23:51:09+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-15T19:00:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-15T19:00:36+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-03-15T21:00:36+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-15T21:00:37+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-03-16T13:36:51+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-03-22T18:18:57+00:00 Notification that HB1480 is now Act 413 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77e70b5d-820b-46c7-9227-e535e7a68ae5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).