---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"TARGET GROUP\" AS IT APPLIES TO COMMUNITY CORRECTION."
description: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"TARGET GROUP\" AS IT APPLIES TO COMMUNITY CORRECTION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1561"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1561 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-24T20:43:52+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-25T18:11:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29d522cf-2f37-46e7-b1b2-10b7c4ef7411"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c9880a7b9efa0ed35e256842e97e6a5ce9a5aac89a395754c1401e2233259b97"
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 1561 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "TARGET GROUP" AS IT APPLIES TO COMMUNITY CORRECTION.

## 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%2FHB1561-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1561** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1561.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24T20:43:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-24T22:40:05+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`
- **2021-03-09T23:54:43+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11T14:40:01+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-11T14:40:18+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-11T16:36:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T18:48:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15T21:44:09+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-15T21:44:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T19:02:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20T20:58:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T20:58:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:05:49+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:05:51+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:21:45+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-25T18:11:33+00:00** Notification that HB1561 is now Act 878 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29d522cf-2f37-46e7-b1b2-10b7c4ef7411`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).