---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE THEFT OF A POSTAL PACKAGE DELIVERED TO A PERSON'S RESIDENCE AND LEFT WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE RESIDENCE; TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "CONCERNING THE THEFT OF A POSTAL PACKAGE DELIVERED TO A PERSON'S RESIDENCE AND LEFT WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE RESIDENCE; TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1317"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1317 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-27T20:29:54+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T17:59:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c37d5df2-e5c0-4049-a3e5-30cfaa4d9924"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "82e1f00e6ca47530bc66f6810ab6ffd17f191f0bf53a4f77bf1ffde6a8814836"
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 1317 (2021) — CONCERNING THE THEFT OF A POSTAL PACKAGE DELIVERED TO A PERSON'S RESIDENCE AND LEFT WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE RESIDENCE; TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FHB1317-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1317** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1317.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27T20:29:54+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T22:38:39+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`
- **2021-02-09T22:03:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-10T14:35:32+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-10T14:36:00+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-10T17:01:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-22T19:19:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22T19:19:38+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-02-22T22:21:10+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-22T22:21:33+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10T19:44:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11T20:35:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T20:35:10+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-03-11T20:35:29+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-11T23:27:03+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-11T23:27:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-12T15:47:14+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T17:59:12+00:00** Notification that HB1317 is now Act 340 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c37d5df2-e5c0-4049-a3e5-30cfaa4d9924`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).