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---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 437"
citation: "Arkansas SB 437 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall", "Hester"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-12T13:35:43+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:43:25+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f308d23d-f4e7-491b-9f43-f1f707ec9bcc"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8c82a8db4d616d5b1173d822b562da315d0c1ed934c4028114f61789686cc016"
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 SB 437 (2025) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 945** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=945.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB437-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB437-S1.pdf)
4. **SB 437** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB437.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Hall — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-12T13:35:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-12T18:59:34+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T12:59:46+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-03-20T12:59:53+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-20T18:40:55+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T18:41:05+00:00** Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:24:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T18:41:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T18:42:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-07T21:34:10+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-08T01:10:21+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`
- **2025-04-14T19:21:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-15T13:31:58+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-15T13:32:00+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-15T14:39:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-16T15:32:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T15:32:35+00:00** Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-16T17:04:07+00:00** Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-16T17:04:12+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-16T17:04:17+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-16T17:04:25+00:00** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2025-04-16T17:04:41+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-16T17:04:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T17:04:56+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T19:18:59+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T19:19:03+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22T21:43:25+00:00** Notification that SB437 is now Act 945 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f308d23d-f4e7-491b-9f43-f1f707ec9bcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).