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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"PERSON\" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE."
+description: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"PERSON\" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1646"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1646 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cloud", "Rapert"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-26T18:18:27+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de50f23f-dea2-4beb-86f2-07d7650a1ba9"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "a4eed3b680d98f9f8921c6a5f1691c4cd6d9a3bf4eca2dc8dbf1afbfb041e89c"
+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 1646 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "PERSON" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE.
+
+## 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%2FHB1646-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1646-H2.pdf)
+3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1646-H3.pdf)
+4. **HB 1646** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1646.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **84–4** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cloud — primary (person)
+- Rapert — primary (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
+- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- Furman — cosponsor (person)
+- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Slape — cosponsor (person)
+- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-04T22:48:10+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`
+- **2021-03-09T14:31:28+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-09T14:31:31+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-09T18:54:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-15T13:35:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-15T13:35:17+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-15T16:47:39+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-29T13:57:07+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-29T13:57:15+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-29T18:02:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-01T22:24:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-05T19:17:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-05T21:39:04+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-05T21:39:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-20T18:21:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-21T20:59:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-21T20:59:50+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-21T22:30:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-21T22:30:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-22T14:14:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-26T18:18:27+00:00** Notification that HB1646 is now Act 931 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de50f23f-dea2-4beb-86f2-07d7650a1ba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+