---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SEALING ACT OF 2013; AND CONCERNING SEALING A FELONY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE CONVICTION."
description: "CONCERNING THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SEALING ACT OF 2013; AND CONCERNING SEALING A FELONY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE CONVICTION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1329"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1329 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Bryant"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-28T16:30:33+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T16:23:12+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85a65361-7e1b-4f34-ac2a-1b8cfef246a9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5120855dcbb93939f1f384dc9dbb08f1d20f3c28c6a09785569ec90bfddd26df"
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 1329 (2021) — CONCERNING THE COMPREHENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD SEALING ACT OF 2013; AND CONCERNING SEALING A FELONY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE CONVICTION.

## 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%2FHB1329-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1329** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1329.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–5** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Bryant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28T16:30:33+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-28T22:29:18+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`
- **2021-02-24T14:26:19+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-24T14:26:24+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-24T17:45:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T21:58:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T18:38:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T22:21:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-18T22:22:06+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07T18:28:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08T19:20:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:21:02+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:24:57+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:24:59+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-09T13:32:26+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-13T16:23:12+00:00** Notification that HB1329 is now Act 690 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85a65361-7e1b-4f34-ac2a-1b8cfef246a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).