---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REVOCATION OF A CHARTER OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REVOCATION OF A CHARTER OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1627"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1627 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Womack"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-03T20:57:32+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T16:17:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e9ee4c8-affc-433f-a339-a5e0eff52257"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e40d70c765ee2806866f96451c395aa0921ac0547da566d27ca03f503f46954b"
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 1627 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE REVOCATION OF A CHARTER OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

## 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%2FHB1627-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1627** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1627.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Womack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03T20:57:32+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-03T22:45:36+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09T14:31:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T14:31:53+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T18:54:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T21:44:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-16T19:01:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T20:55:27+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-16T20:55:38+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18T18:09:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T19:55:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T19:55:35+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-19T22:09:35+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-19T22:09:37+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-20T14:07:59+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-26T16:17:53+00:00** Notification that HB1627 is now Act 938 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e9ee4c8-affc-433f-a339-a5e0eff52257`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).