republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1779.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	CONCERNING THE IDENTIFICATION AND ELIMINATION OF UNUSED AND UNNECESSARY POSITIONS FROM THE BUDGETS OF STATE AGENCIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	CONCERNING THE IDENTIFICATION AND ELIMINATION OF UNUSED AND UNNECESSARY POSITIONS FROM THE BUDGETS OF STATE AGENCIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1779	Arkansas HB 1779 (2021)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Wooten	2	18	2	2021-03-17T20:50:45+00:00	2021-04-20T18:14:34+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/84433cc8-442d-48b2-86a5-338cd83a5a29	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	89f3d182da7a70b53bbe726aab513791ee284642b777d4dfd0bebee777412a1f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1779 (2021) — CONCERNING THE IDENTIFICATION AND ELIMINATION OF UNUSED AND UNNECESSARY POSITIONS FROM THE BUDGETS OF STATE AGENCIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1779 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 29–1 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 86–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Wooten — primary (person)
• K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-17T20:50:45+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-17T21:58:03+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
• 2021-04-07T18:58:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2021-04-08T18:08:46+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-08T18:08:48+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-08T18:34:03+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-12T19:26:10+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-12T19:26:13+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-12T22:08:22+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-12T22:08:36+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13T22:42:13+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-15T21:10:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-15T21:10:49+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2021-04-15T21:10:57+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-15T22:34:47+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-15T22:34:49+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-16T13:39:36+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-20T18:14:34+00:00 Notification that HB1779 is now Act 796 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/84433cc8-442d-48b2-86a5-338cd83a5a29. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).