republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1737.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "TRANSMITTING UTILITY" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES.	TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "TRANSMITTING UTILITY" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1737	Arkansas HB 1737 (2025)	bill		enacted	Dees M. Brown	2	13	0	2025-03-11T18:33:20+00:00	2025-04-14T22:10:34+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9126c758-cad3-42dd-a37a-c00bfd87ee8f	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	9e144c2488e70e635994da41cadc6201af18a884099b9657b9d1ca7a2dc9da52	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1737 (2025) — TO AMEND THE TRANSMITTING UTILITY ACT; AND TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "TRANSMITTING UTILITY" TO INCLUDE FIBER OPTIC AND BROADBAND LINES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 584 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1737 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Dees — primary (person)
• M. Brown — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-11T18:33:20+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-11T21:59:00+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-03-19T20:08:24+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-20T19:52:48+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-20T23:26:18+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-03-20T23:26:25+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T18:36:57+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09T02:28:53+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09T02:29:03+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-09T16:28:26+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-09T16:28:29+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-09T16:28:32+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-14T22:10:34+00:00 Notification that HB1737 is now Act 584 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9126c758-cad3-42dd-a37a-c00bfd87ee8f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).