Bill
HR 1007
Clarifies which routine Arkansas House actions may continue after an adjournment motion, allowing readings, transfers, amendments, calendars, and clerical work to finish today.
Purpose
- HR 1007 is a House resolution that amends the House Rules of the Arkansas House of Representatives (Ninety-Fifth General Assembly). Its purpose is to clarify which routine House functions may continue after a motion to adjourn is made and to state that those functions may continue until the close of business on the day the adjournment motion is made.
Key provisions
- Amends Subsection 33.(m) (daily order of business) of the House Rules.
- Establishes that, unless modified by the motion to adjourn, the following items are permitted to continue until the close of business on the day an adjournment motion is made:
- Announcements
- Reading of bills
- Transferring bills
- A member amending his or her own bill
- A member withdrawing his or her own bill
- Placing the calendars on members' desks
- Finalizing resolutions
- Reading communications
- Reading committee reports
- The amendment is procedural: it identifies and preserves routine clerical and procedural activities that may be completed after an adjournment motion on the same calendar day.
Who/what is affected
- Primary effect: internal operations of the Arkansas House of Representatives — members, the presiding officer, clerks, and legislative staff who administer floor business, calendars, readings, transfers, amendments, withdrawals, communications, and committee reports.
- No direct substantive change to state law or policy for the public; this is an internal House rules change governing legislative procedure.
Procedural history / timeline (as recorded)
- 01/15/2025: Draft timestamped in bill file.
- 01/16/2025: Filed; read first time, rules suspended, read second time and referred to Committee on House Rules (record shows additional filings on 01/16).
- 01/29/2025: Returned by the committee — Do Pass.
- 01/30/2025: Read and adopted (recorded as READ AND ADOPTED).
- 02/05/2025: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary; introduced in House (filed).
- 04/29/2025: Filed (additional administrative filing).
- 05/01/2025: Referred to Local & Consent Calendars.
- 05/22/2025: Considered in Local & Consent Calendars.
- 05/23/2025: Placed on Congratulatory & Memorial Resolutions Calendar; laid before the House; adopted; nonrecord vote recorded in Journal.
- 05/24/2025: Reported enrolled.
- Status listed as: READ AND ADOPTED.
Sponsor
- Primary sponsor: Representative S. Meeks (House of Representatives, Arkansas).
Impact and notes
- HR 1007 is an internal housekeeping/change-to-rules resolution. It standardizes which routine items may continue after an adjournment motion, reducing ambiguity for floor managers and staff and helping ensure certain administrative and procedural actions can be completed on the same day.
- No fiscal impact or change in substantive state law; effects are limited to legislative procedure and floor operations.
- A companion measure is listed as S 558.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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