---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE INTRASTATE TRANSFER OF A SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM PARTICIPANT TO ANOTHER SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM; TO CREATE A VETERANS TREATMENT SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE A DWI/BWI SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM."
description: "CONCERNING THE INTRASTATE TRANSFER OF A SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM PARTICIPANT TO ANOTHER SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM; TO CREATE A VETERANS TREATMENT SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE A DWI/BWI SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1059"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1059 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Dalby"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-21T19:54:51+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-02T21:37:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e85c111d-90c8-4483-840a-e608bf825476"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "dfecdef8876f6a46389dd30f9316b8563a1c4b2035b96be1fabc7cf3471218b0"
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 1059 (2021) — CONCERNING THE INTRASTATE TRANSFER OF A SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM PARTICIPANT TO ANOTHER SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM; TO CREATE A VETERANS TREATMENT SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM; AND TO CREATE A DWI/BWI SPECIALTY COURT PROGRAM.

## 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%2FHB1059-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1059** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1059.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Dalby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-21T19:54:51+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:25:44+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`
- **2021-01-14T22:49:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-19T14:35:23+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-19T14:35:27+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-19T16:16:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-01-21T19:30:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-21T21:00:23+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-21T21:01:00+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27T19:54:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28T20:25:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T20:25:50+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:42:24+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-01-28T22:42:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-01-29T19:16:34+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-02T21:37:00+00:00** Notification that HB1059 is now Act 58 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e85c111d-90c8-4483-840a-e608bf825476`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).