---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REPEAL THE ADOPT A DOCUMENT PROGRAM."
description: "TO REPEAL THE ADOPT A DOCUMENT PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1444"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1444 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley", "G. Stubblefield"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-08T20:01:09+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-06T16:22:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17ae8ddf-4df2-44d5-8f38-35e1a0166f69"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "56a5e99efad030707d55af4fbc1f471ce10b4a2dc9db4aac46832c730dd9f5ab"
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 1444 (2021) — TO REPEAL THE ADOPT A DOCUMENT PROGRAM.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1444** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1444.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)
- G. Stubblefield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08T20:01:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-08T22:46:44+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T22:52:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:17:30+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T22:15:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-18T22:15:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T18:29:09+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T19:46:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T19:46:11+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:20:16+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:20:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-05T14:49:08+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-06T16:22:10+00:00** Notification that HB1444 is now Act 585 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17ae8ddf-4df2-44d5-8f38-35e1a0166f69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).