republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1604.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROHIBITED CONTRACTS BY STATE AGENCIES; AND TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS BY STATE AGENCIES TO PURCHASE PROMOTIONAL ITEMS MADE IN CHINA.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROHIBITED CONTRACTS BY STATE AGENCIES; AND TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS BY STATE AGENCIES TO PURCHASE PROMOTIONAL ITEMS MADE IN CHINA.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1604	Arkansas HB 1604 (2025)	bill		enacted	B. Johnson McAlindon	4	24	0	2025-02-26T21:02:10+00:00	2025-04-21T16:35:21+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f2a11e68-c4c1-4e40-a8ee-16dfe9742efa	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	fbd9e077fe348c9d574c0dc1f17862de07efecc53fb66f724d298f87aa1c0405	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1604 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROHIBITED CONTRACTS BY STATE AGENCIES; AND TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS BY STATE AGENCIES TO PURCHASE PROMOTIONAL ITEMS MADE IN CHINA.

Version chain

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

1. Act 943 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1604 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• B. Johnson — primary (person)
• McAlindon — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Childress — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Eaton — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• John Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
• M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• N. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Schulz — cosponsor (person)
• Torres — cosponsor (person)
• Tosh — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Walker — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-26T21:02:10+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-26T23:34:53+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
• 2025-03-12T23:47:33+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-03-17T13:39:41+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-17T13:39:44+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-03-17T17:56:01+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-18T19:12:17+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T22:08:10+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-18T22:08:17+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20T20:30:25+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-03-20T20:30:32+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-03-20T20:30:39+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-03-20T21:02:59+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-03-20T21:03:06+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-04-04T00:24:08+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T02:08:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T02:08:29+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-04-09T16:05:11+00:00 Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-04-09T16:05:16+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-04-14T21:25:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 committee-passage
• 2025-04-15T20:05:02+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2025-04-15T20:05:09+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T13:32:02+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-21T16:35:21+00:00 Notification that HB1604 is now Act 943 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f2a11e68-c4c1-4e40-a8ee-16dfe9742efa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).