---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE SALARIES OF DISTRICT COURT JUDGES AND PERSONNEL FOR CERTAIN DISTRICT COURTS; AND TO REPEAL OBSOLETE LANGUAGE."
description: "CONCERNING THE SALARIES OF DISTRICT COURT JUDGES AND PERSONNEL FOR CERTAIN DISTRICT COURTS; AND TO REPEAL OBSOLETE LANGUAGE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1550"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1550 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dalby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24T19:07:24+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-24T20:17:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4eba86c-24b1-4dc6-9597-e68a471e14d4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "03baa5123c49bc59789ce7dbe89f77ca232968e5c800bc49b3163a449c29e97e"
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 1550 (2021) — CONCERNING THE SALARIES OF DISTRICT COURT JUDGES AND PERSONNEL FOR CERTAIN DISTRICT COURTS; AND TO REPEAL OBSOLETE LANGUAGE.

## 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%2FHB1550-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1550-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1550** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1550.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–2** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dalby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24T19:07:24+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T22:37:42+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`
- **2021-03-02T14:34:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-02T14:34:50+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-02T16:56:54+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T23:54:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T14:40:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-11T14:40:51+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-11T16:36:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T18:20:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T21:41:14+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-15T21:41:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T18:39:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22T19:29:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T19:29:39+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:09:59+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-22T21:10:02+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-23T14:09:29+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-24T20:17:18+00:00** Notification that HB1550 is now Act 454 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4eba86c-24b1-4dc6-9597-e68a471e14d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).