---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE BACK THE BLUE ACT."
description: "THE BACK THE BLUE ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1633"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1633 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "Underwood"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-03T22:56:04+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-14T18:32:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c5dc3f7-52e3-4f8b-9f84-cdc092ccd750"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d47ce89ed6738527891ef81b4414eb3541ddd4c5aea650c7ebbf359d0798de3b"
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 1633 (2021) — THE BACK THE BLUE ACT.

## 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%2FHB1633-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1633** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1633.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- Underwood — primary (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Tollett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03T22:56:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T22:44:38+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`
- **2021-03-08T23:11:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-10T14:26:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-10T14:26:53+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-10T15:59:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-11T19:25:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11T22:08:56+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-11T22:10:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08T18:20:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-12T19:54:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T19:54:31+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-12T21:45:14+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-12T21:45:17+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-13T13:44:58+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-14T18:32:24+00:00** Notification that HB1633 is now Act 714 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c5dc3f7-52e3-4f8b-9f84-cdc092ccd750`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).