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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING RETIRED PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS CARRYING A CONCEALED HANDGUN."
+description: "CONCERNING RETIRED PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS CARRYING A CONCEALED HANDGUN."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1593"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1593 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Gazaway"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-03-01T20:53:49+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-14T18:30:48+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f929f669-f0d0-4b51-af4d-5b6ce762ac01"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "a6628f0773a7006b65bf854203ee910521a4c74de4c9d4e6e64fa4d44ae9754c"
+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 1593 (2021) — CONCERNING RETIRED PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS CARRYING A CONCEALED HANDGUN.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1593-S1.pdf)
+2. **HB 1593** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1593.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **81–3** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Gazaway — primary (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-01T20:53:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-01T23:05:07+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-09T23:53:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-10T19:54:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-10T22:23:08+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-03-10T22:24:15+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16T18:32:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-17T18:28:24+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-17T18:28:36+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-03-17T20:49:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-18T21:26:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-18T21:27:00+00:00** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
+- **2021-03-18T23:48:26+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-03-18T23:48:37+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-08T18:07:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-12T18:59:29+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-12T18:59:31+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-13T13:45:05+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-14T18:30:48+00:00** Notification that HB1593 is now Act 710 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f929f669-f0d0-4b51-af4d-5b6ce762ac01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+