---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE DISPOSITION OF A SEIZED AND FORFEITED FIREARM."
description: "CONCERNING THE DISPOSITION OF A SEIZED AND FORFEITED FIREARM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 403"
citation: "Arkansas SB 403 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c384075-0f20-46da-b62e-aa00837c561c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2416e8eed5dc9a57598da9946871c2dccf771453dd010a1d1b0bea03c31cba0f"
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 SB 403 (2019) — CONCERNING THE DISPOSITION OF A SEIZED AND FORFEITED FIREARM.

## 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=SB403-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 403** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB403.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-25** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-28** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-28** 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`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-18** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-03-19** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-27** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-27** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-03-27** Rules suspended.
- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-28** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-02** Notification that SB403 is now Act 630 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c384075-0f20-46da-b62e-aa00837c561c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).