---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2021-2022 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1208"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1208 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19T17:05:44+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-28T19:48:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95da29bb-1437-4e08-af6a-4ac548fda516"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "10c70adad1964c23ec7185c0d86f9e23063ebfecc99dcfba48f2632ced9d9c4f"
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 1208 (2021) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY 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%2FHB1208-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1208-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1208-H3.pdf)
4. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1208-H4.pdf)
5. **HB 1208** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1208.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

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19T17:05:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-19T19:21:47+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`
- **2021-02-04T20:10:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-04T20:10:29+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-04T21:13:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-03T19:42:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-03T19:42:08+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-03T20:21:55+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T20:16:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T20:17:05+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T21:27:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T20:00:51+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-31T20:00:55+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-31T20:51:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-21T15:27:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-22T19:11:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T19:11:09+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-23T03:12:00+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-23T03:12:01+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-26T18:23:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T18:23:19+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-26T18:23:21+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:59:41+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:59:44+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T15:12:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-28T19:48:58+00:00** Notification that HB1208 is now Act 995 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95da29bb-1437-4e08-af6a-4ac548fda516`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).