republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1681.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1681"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1681 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Bryant", "Vaught"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T22:33:48+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:25:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/768b56dc-2276-45f0-938c-d65391852227"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9aa7b045fba37895f889eeaf1886bdadbb4ec5b9933095d3d7851d023b8e8e7c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas HB 1681 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 812** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=812.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1681-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1681-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1681-S1.pdf)
5. **HB 1681** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1681.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Bryant — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- A. Collins — cosponsor (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barnett — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Childress — cosponsor (person)
- Clowney — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Duke — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- F. Love — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- G. Leding — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales Worthen — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Henley — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- J. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Magie — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McGruder — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- N. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- Nazarenko — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Pearce — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Schulz — cosponsor (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Steimel — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04T22:33:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T23:36:38+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T13:37:04+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-11T13:37:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-11T15:40:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T13:34:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-18T13:34:21+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-18T16:27:55+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-19T18:38:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T19:36:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T19:36:04+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-20T23:22:21+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:22:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T21:34:43+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-01T21:34:52+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-04-01T21:35:00+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-01T22:29:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T22:30:09+00:00** Re-referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:22:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T01:06:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T01:06:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-09T01:06:24+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-09T16:05:34+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-09T16:05:41+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T18:32:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14T20:24:21+00:00** Senate Amendment #1 read and concurred in, and the Emergency Clause
- **2025-04-14T20:24:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T15:57:25+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:25:34+00:00** Notification that HB1681 is now Act 812 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/768b56dc-2276-45f0-938c-d65391852227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).