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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL FIREARM BANS WITHIN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND CONCERNING STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS."
+description: "CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL FIREARM BANS WITHIN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND CONCERNING STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1957"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1957 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "Wardlaw"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-04-27T03:21:19+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-29T18:46:30+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15595740-5305-4982-8810-0741057b5c8b"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "bfc9479f933f6ab7df887cd62af6fa8d5e256dc714c287ca7f2e76c5982f59e3"
+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 1957 (2021) — CONCERNING THE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL FIREARM BANS WITHIN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND CONCERNING STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
+
+## 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%2FHB1957-S1.pdf)
+2. **HB 1957** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1957.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **79–20** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **26–6** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–19** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Irvin — primary (person)
+- Wardlaw — primary (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Sample — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
+- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Deffenbaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
+- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
+- Hester — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
+- J. English — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean — cosponsor (person)
+- Jett — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Eads — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Pitsch — cosponsor (person)
+- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Payton — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
+- Rice — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
+- Slape — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-04-27T03:21:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-04-27T03:29:05+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27T15:50:13+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-27T19:30:00+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
+- **2021-04-27T19:31:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-27T20:02:25+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-27T20:02:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-27T22:37:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-27T22:37:49+00:00** Rules suspended.
+- **2021-04-27T22:37:56+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-27T22:38:07+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2021-04-27T23:20:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-28T05:18:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-28T05:19:06+00:00** Returned to the House as amended, Amendment #1.
+- **2021-04-28T05:29:40+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2021-04-28T05:31:43+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-28T05:35:19+00:00** Motion to Suspend the Rules for State Agencies to meet without notice passes
+- **2021-04-28T05:46:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-28T06:00:46+00:00** RULES SUSPENDED
+- **2021-04-28T06:01:21+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
+- **2021-04-28T06:01:29+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-28T16:21:40+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-29T18:46:30+00:00** Notification that HB1957 is now Act 1012 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15595740-5305-4982-8810-0741057b5c8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+