---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SEALING ACT OF 2013."
description: "TO AMEND THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SEALING ACT OF 2013."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1256"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1256 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Boyd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-25T19:46:23+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T17:59:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa752292-9e63-4741-8e39-3e8757dac348"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "106da2f2a2c88f627b59ff6490c4ad362f5b34f62acc1e516540f1b5baa7e1d8"
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 1256 (2021) — TO AMEND THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SEALING ACT OF 2013.

## 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%2FHB1256-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1256-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1256** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1256.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Boyd — primary (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25T19:46:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-25T21:40:13+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`
- **2021-01-27T14:45:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-27T14:45:12+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-27T16:25:05+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-24T14:24:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-24T14:25:02+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-24T17:44:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-02T21:37:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03T19:25:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-03T22:58:32+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-03T22:58:40+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T19:43:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11T20:24:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T20:24:40+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-11T23:26:45+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-11T23:26:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-12T15:47:22+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T17:59:21+00:00** Notification that HB1256 is now Act 341 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa752292-9e63-4741-8e39-3e8757dac348`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).