---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE."
description: "CONCERNING OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1321"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1321 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Gazaway"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-27T20:36:48+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-14T18:31:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f400072-e78b-4bbb-8a2b-d9e5f6580789"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "52e4b3c043e07769498f91d53302393d1cefb388b63cfc55af705adb9735fb6e"
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 1321 (2021) — CONCERNING OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

## 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%2FHB1321-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1321-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1321-S1.pdf)
4. **HB 1321** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1321.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Gazaway — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27T20:36:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-27T22:39:27+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`
- **2021-02-25T14:36:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-25T14:36:14+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-25T17:12:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T21:19:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08T14:37:08+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-08T14:37:11+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-08T18:43:50+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T19:29:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T22:33:31+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-09T22:33:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T13:30:53+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2021-03-16T13:31:00+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2021-03-16T18:14:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T18:14:33+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T18:08:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T19:42:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T19:43:05+00:00** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2021-04-01T22:16:43+00:00** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2021-04-01T22:16:54+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08T18:07:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12T19:00:20+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2021-04-12T19:00:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-13T13:45:29+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-14T18:31:32+00:00** Notification that HB1321 is now Act 712 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f400072-e78b-4bbb-8a2b-d9e5f6580789`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).