---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1206"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1206 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T17:01:09+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-23T14:53:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/460ff5de-80b5-420a-82bd-39bec95869c2"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5049260c5876c5c44b210456390862e4628e1df65e3e5eb276ab01200f78090c"
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 1206 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS - DIVISION OF CORRECTION APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR.

## 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%2FHB1206-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1206-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1206-H3.pdf)
4. **HB 1206** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1206.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T17:01:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T19:21:10+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04T20:09:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-04T20:09:40+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-04T21:13:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-18T18:32:56+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-18T18:33:12+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:13:17+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-13T16:02:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 3 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14T20:15:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-14T20:15:40+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-14T21:11:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T20:17:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T20:17:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-19T22:12:00+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:12:19+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-20T22:07:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T22:07:01+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-20T22:07:03+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:01:43+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:01:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:23:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-23T14:53:44+00:00** Notification that HB1206 is now Act 870 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/460ff5de-80b5-420a-82bd-39bec95869c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).