---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO CREATE CONSISTENT LANGUAGE FOR ALL STATE ENTITIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION STATE DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS, REGARDING THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT HIRING PROGRAM; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
description: "AN ACT TO CREATE CONSISTENT LANGUAGE FOR ALL STATE ENTITIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION STATE DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS, REGARDING THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT HIRING PROGRAM; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1121"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1121 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Dotson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T20:12:06+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-09T16:22:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e12aca85-1a75-4d58-a4c3-d18e5f1c51de"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a2950017eaed068a3681f29ad3398bc6213a2973ab96b22283e0141f102dd3c3"
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 1121 (2021) — AN ACT TO CREATE CONSISTENT LANGUAGE FOR ALL STATE ENTITIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION STATE DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS, REGARDING THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT HIRING PROGRAM; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1121** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1121.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T20:12:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-12T16:16:26+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`
- **2021-01-27T16:26:23+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28T19:26:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28T22:30:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-03T20:08:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03T20:08:23+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-03T22:25:56+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-03T22:25:59+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-04T15:00:39+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-09T16:22:34+00:00** Notification that HB1121 is now Act 88 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e12aca85-1a75-4d58-a4c3-d18e5f1c51de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).