---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING UNIFIED COMMAND OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN AND AROUND THE STATE CAPITOL IN THE EVENT OF A CIVIL DISTURBANCE OR A CRIME IN PROGRESS."
description: "CONCERNING UNIFIED COMMAND OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN AND AROUND THE STATE CAPITOL IN THE EVENT OF A CIVIL DISTURBANCE OR A CRIME IN PROGRESS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1236"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1236 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "M. Berry"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25T17:49:19+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T19:04:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f804702d-94d3-455c-8173-9608c4cdba71"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f8f3c51e53b90046f4b7035bd31c6064a47e007e96057ceab54bec8276a030c5"
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 1236 (2021) — CONCERNING UNIFIED COMMAND OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN AND AROUND THE STATE CAPITOL IN THE EVENT OF A CIVIL DISTURBANCE OR A CRIME IN PROGRESS.

## 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%2FHB1236-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1236** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1236.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- M. Berry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T17:49:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T19:41:21+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`
- **2021-02-02T14:32:15+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-02T14:32:22+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-02T16:27:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-03T19:21:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-04T19:21:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-04T23:16:27+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-04T23:16:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T20:49:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24T20:50:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T20:50:55+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:49:30+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:49:32+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T14:51:48+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-01T19:04:40+00:00** Notification that HB1236 is now Act 186 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f804702d-94d3-455c-8173-9608c4cdba71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).