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type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE A TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE A TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1572"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1572 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ladyman", "M. McKee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T14:41:20+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-16T21:05:11+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ec8addb-82db-42cd-8515-75ea5c4adcfe"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fc67c5be080cce919dbc829def2ea6f3e62fc3754fea4aa03a51ed735253fbe5"
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 1572 (2025) — TO CREATE A TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY STUDY ON NEW NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 707** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=707.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1572-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1572-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1572-H3.pdf)
5. **HB 1572** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1572.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Ladyman — primary (person)
- M. McKee — primary (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-25T14:41:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T23:03:41+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on ENERGY - JOINT `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T13:32:04+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-19T13:32:06+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-19T21:17:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-31T13:39:33+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-31T13:39:36+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:11:04+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T23:24:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 3 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T18:45:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-02T18:45:45+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-02T19:39:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-03T19:21:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T19:21:37+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-04T00:12:55+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-04T00:13:05+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:39:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T23:13:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T23:13:28+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-09T23:13:36+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-10T01:33:46+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-10T01:33:54+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-10T16:11:05+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-16T21:05:11+00:00** Notification that HB1572 is now Act 707 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ec8addb-82db-42cd-8515-75ea5c4adcfe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).