---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE PROHIBITIONS ON ADVERTISING AND USE OF CERTAIN SYMBOLS REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
description: "TO AMEND THE PROHIBITIONS ON ADVERTISING AND USE OF CERTAIN SYMBOLS REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1353"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1353 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bledsoe", "Haak"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-01T16:24:48+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T17:59:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0b1fd5f-829b-4bb3-b839-b3c25c36091e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4572ea1588603b5ca783aa0bd845d9981050c6ceb4b95e75410295ccfb065d0a"
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 1353 (2021) — TO AMEND THE PROHIBITIONS ON ADVERTISING AND USE OF CERTAIN SYMBOLS REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

## 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%2FHB1353-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1353** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1353.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **78–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bledsoe — primary (person)
- Haak — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01T16:24:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-01T21:50:27+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10T19:04:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22T14:38:21+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-22T14:38:30+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-22T16:09:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-23T19:08:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23T21:26:02+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-23T21:26:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09T19:26:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10T21:09:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-10T21:09:42+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-10T22:18:14+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-10T22:18:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-11T14:58:05+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T17:59:29+00:00** Notification that HB1353 is now Act 342 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0b1fd5f-829b-4bb3-b839-b3c25c36091e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).