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Votes at a glance: key floor actions in the Arkansas House (Feb. 27, 2025)
Summary
The House acted on a range of bills and resolutions during Thursday’s session. Listed below are measures that received floor action and the recorded tallies or outcomes as reflected in the transcript.
The Arkansas House took up a series of bills and resolutions on Thursday. The list below summarizes each measure mentioned on the floor, a one‑line description (as given by members), and the recorded vote or announced outcome from the transcript. Where the transcript records only a voice vote, that is noted.
- House Resolution 1051 — recognize Eating Disorder Action Week. Sponsor: Representative Garner. Outcome: adopted by voice vote (adopted).
- House Resolution 1055 — recognize Miss America’s Teen 2025 Peyton Bowling. Outcome: adopted by voice vote.
- House Resolution 1056 — honor Horatio School District FFA national champion and advisor Nikki Litchford. Outcome: adopted by voice vote.
- House Resolution 1058 — recognize the Hmong community of Arkansas. Outcome: adopted by voice vote.
- Motion to expunge vote on House Concurrent Resolution 1006 — Sponsor: Representative Vaught moved to expunge the prior vote so votes could be recorded on the board. Recorded roll call: 96 yay, 0 nay, 0 present. Outcome: motion passed (recorded).
- House Concurrent Resolution 1006 — final passage recorded later: roll call 94 yays, 1 nay, 0 present (transcript: bill passed on recorded vote).
- Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1107 (summer meal expansion appropriation) — Sponsor: Representative Jean. Amendment adopted. The amendment provided a $50,000,000 appropriation (reported as $47,000,000 federal, $3,000,000 state in sponsor remarks).
- House Bill 1094 (tobacco settlement / Department of Health): Recorded roll call in transcript: 70 yays, 19 nays, 5 present. The transcript contains conflicting short announcements about passage vs. failure; the numeric tally is recorded as shown.
- House Bill 1265 (University of Arkansas at Little Rock appropriation under balanced budget): Recorded roll call 57 yays, 31 nays, 3 present — recorded as failed in the transcript.
- Senate Bill 20 (sentencing commission / Department of Correction): Recorded roll call 96 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill and emergency clause passed.
- Senate Bill 75 (Department of Education — School for the Blind operations): Recorded roll call 97 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill and emergency clause passed.
- Concur and send Senate Amendment No. 2 to House Bill 1049: Recorded roll call 92 yay, 2 nay, 3 present — concurrence and transmission recorded.
- Concur and send Senate Amendment No. 1 to House Bill 1387: Recorded roll call 91 yay, 1 nay, 2 present — concurrence and transmission recorded.
- House Bill 1452 (clarify medical marijuana law and motor‑vehicle possession): Recorded roll call 80 yays, 2 nays, 9 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1428 (mobility accessible hotel rooms — ADA bed height requirement): Recorded roll call 90 yays, 1 nay, 2 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1326 (special allowances and early retirement path for state‑supported colleges): Recorded roll call 96 yays, 0 nay, 1 present — bill and emergency clause adopted.
- House Bill 1523 (missing persons alert — codify Amber and Silver alerts and create Purple alert): Recorded roll call 95 yays, 0 nay, 1 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1556 (Arkansas Music Appreciation Day — change date to March 1): Recorded roll call 94 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1499 (sale and purchase procedure for public property; Division of Building Authority agency bill): Recorded roll call 96 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1184 (Fair Mortgage Lending Act — consumer protections regarding trigger leads): Recorded roll call 97 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1466 (amendments from Department of Securities and Banking related to mortgage servicing): Recorded roll call 96 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1550 (create property management broker/associate license under Arkansas Real Estate Commission): Recorded roll call 95 yays, 0 nay, 1 present — bill passed.
- House Bill 1522 (allow use of GIS data for distribution of municipal aid/turnback funds to newly incorporated municipalities): Recorded roll call 97 yays, 0 nay, 0 present — bill and emergency clause passed.
- House Bill 1510 (repeal municipal authority to exercise territorial jurisdiction over unincorporated county areas): Recorded roll call 50 yays, 25 nays, 12 present. The transcript shows that immediately after the tally the speaker said both "The bill is passed" and then said "Oh, bill has failed. I thought there was 51," indicating an unclear announcement on the floor despite the recorded numeric tally.
Procedural notes: Several measures were considered under the emergency clause. Where the transcript records only a voice vote, that is noted above. The clerk’s numeric tallies are reproduced here exactly as announced in the transcript; in a few cases (noted above) the transcript also records momentary confusion about a measure’s final disposition.
If you need a machine‑readable extract of these roll calls or the precise transcript blocks for each item, I can provide the cited transcript timestamps and short evidence excerpts.
