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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING THE POSSESSION AND USE OF PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS."
+description: "CONCERNING THE POSSESSION AND USE OF PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1597"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1597 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Boyd"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-02T17:47:21+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-05T18:10:27+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4825b699-2cbb-4800-89d7-d7bd0bce6614"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "78dcc14d3b3e2a9f3646755718ce1f1a324e9a7a430d3ca2b3c7c9a4ad37240a"
+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 1597 (2021) — CONCERNING THE POSSESSION AND USE OF PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1597-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1597-H2.pdf)
+3. **HB 1597** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1597.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Boyd — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-02T17:47:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-02T23:00:09+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`
+- **2021-03-08T14:34:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-08T14:34:33+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-08T18:42:11+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-15T13:33:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-15T13:33:05+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-15T16:46:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-16T21:56:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-17T20:28:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-17T22:43:36+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-03-17T22:43:55+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-30T18:27:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-31T20:30:41+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-31T20:30:50+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-31T21:46:12+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-31T21:46:14+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-01T13:48:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-05T18:10:27+00:00** Notification that HB1597 is now Act 566 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4825b699-2cbb-4800-89d7-d7bd0bce6614`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+