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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR."
+description: "TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1943"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1943 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "M. Hodges"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-04-19T17:51:42+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-30T20:40:01+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/689aa3c8-ec0e-4659-a590-126d288b3459"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "b838bae60df8c486a8ddbaff2e33d821d10dd213b58f127c03b07a21bc574d27"
+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 1943 (2021) — TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR.
+
+## 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%2FHB1943-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1943-H2.pdf)
+3. **HB 1943** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1943.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Clark — primary (person)
+- M. Hodges — primary (person)
+- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
+- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
+- Love — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-04-19T17:51:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-04-19T23:01:17+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`
+- **2021-04-22T18:21:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-26T13:38:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-26T13:38:46+00:00** Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-26T14:45:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-26T18:50:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26T22:25:13+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-26T22:25:21+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-26T22:57:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-27T16:50:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-27T16:51:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-27T17:05:25+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-27T17:05:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-28T16:23:17+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-30T20:40:01+00:00** Notification that HB1943 is now Act 1082 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/689aa3c8-ec0e-4659-a590-126d288b3459`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+