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type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION; AND TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BOUNDARIES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION; AND TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BOUNDARIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1855"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1855 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ennett", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-19T18:58:55+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:27:31+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3982a396-1892-44c6-a5fd-fa3f50a93bbd"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b83899870c08efa25adad539c924d0b20f2d4cd79e04235535d25aa4e0066b6e"
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 1855 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ARKANSAS FORESTRY COMMISSION; AND TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BOUNDARIES.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 818** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=818.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1855** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1855.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Ennett — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- J. Scott — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-19T18:58:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-19T22:21:21+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`
- **2025-04-02T19:18:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T20:09:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04T00:16:11+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-04T00:16:21+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T05:02:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T18:48:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:48:33+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:08:44+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:08:46+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:42:07+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:27:31+00:00** Notification that HB1855 is now Act 818 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3982a396-1892-44c6-a5fd-fa3f50a93bbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).