---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNUSED SICK LEAVE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNUSED SICK LEAVE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1339"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1339 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "L. Eads"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-28T20:01:35+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-01T19:05:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a0f983f-81b4-4916-8a64-eebaa06a443c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "0cb7dd455073ac7055530edb74706adfdc646b686b53523fb6644eec3506c36d"
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 1339 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNUSED SICK LEAVE.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1339** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1339.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- L. Eads — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28T20:01:35+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-28T22:31:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC RETIREMENT & SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS-JOINT `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22T17:08:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-23T19:10:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T21:24:25+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-23T21:24:34+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-02-24T20:56:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T20:56:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:50:22+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:50:24+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T14:50:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-01T19:05:10+00:00** Notification that HB1339 is now Act 189 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a0f983f-81b4-4916-8a64-eebaa06a443c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).