---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO EXCLUDE FROM THE DEFINITIONS OF \"CELLULAR TELEPHONE\", \"WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE\", AND \"HANDHELD WIRELESS TELEPHONE\" CERTAIN DEVICES."
description: "TO EXCLUDE FROM THE DEFINITIONS OF \"CELLULAR TELEPHONE\", \"WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE\", AND \"HANDHELD WIRELESS TELEPHONE\" CERTAIN DEVICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1683"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1683 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McNair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a49935b9-283c-467c-9c64-514ffd1d6aad"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "abcefb8c3d01edaa9f33e32ea17bd9fc937799e159c9134b4454ad4845ca101a"
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 1683 (2019) — TO EXCLUDE FROM THE DEFINITIONS OF "CELLULAR TELEPHONE", "WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICE", AND "HANDHELD WIRELESS TELEPHONE" CERTAIN DEVICES.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1683** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1683.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McNair — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-13** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-25** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-25** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-26** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-27** Notification that HB1683 is now Act 577 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a49935b9-283c-467c-9c64-514ffd1d6aad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).