---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO RECONCILE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND BATTERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE; AND TO INCREASE THE PENALTIES FOR BATTERY OFFENSES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
description: "TO RECONCILE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND BATTERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE; AND TO INCREASE THE PENALTIES FOR BATTERY OFFENSES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1379"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1379 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Fite"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-05"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36255e61-eeb2-42c5-a808-55f791c14f9a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c9cdcc98324babaee9fe60cff4c9078bbae4cec78b346df395f9ddd1adf61acf"
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 1379 (2019) — TO RECONCILE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND BATTERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE; AND TO INCREASE THE PENALTIES FOR BATTERY OFFENSES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1379-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1379** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1379.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Fite — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-05** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-05** 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`
- **2019-02-26** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-27** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-27** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-13** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-13** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-18** Notification that HB1379 is now Act 498 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36255e61-eeb2-42c5-a808-55f791c14f9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).