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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF A NO CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN OFFENSES, INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING-RELATED AND TERRORISTIC THREATENING OFFENSES."
+description: "CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF A NO CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN OFFENSES, INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING-RELATED AND TERRORISTIC THREATENING OFFENSES."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1739"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1739 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bledsoe", "Lundstrum"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-15T20:24:06+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-20T18:16:22+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/083615c9-bad8-4f58-be0d-b4daae5e190e"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "4a1cfb4f798bbe97b96b1d542d6099888a352f03ea5f974d637dbd12a965d4f7"
+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 1739 (2021) — CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF A NO CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN OFFENSES, INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING-RELATED AND TERRORISTIC THREATENING OFFENSES.
+
+## 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%2FHB1739-H1.pdf)
+2. **HB 1739** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1739.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bledsoe — primary (person)
+- Lundstrum — primary (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-15T20:24:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-15T22:04:24+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`
+- **2021-03-31T01:27:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-01T13:34:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-01T13:34:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-01T17:00:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-05T18:36:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-05T21:46:57+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-05T21:49:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-14T18:33:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-15T20:58:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-15T20:58:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-15T22:34:03+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-15T22:34:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-16T13:39:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-20T18:16:22+00:00** Notification that HB1739 is now Act 799 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/083615c9-bad8-4f58-be0d-b4daae5e190e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+