---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"PERSON\" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE."
description: "CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF \"PERSON\" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1646"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1646 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cloud", "Rapert"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-26T18:18:27+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de50f23f-dea2-4beb-86f2-07d7650a1ba9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a4eed3b680d98f9f8921c6a5f1691c4cd6d9a3bf4eca2dc8dbf1afbfb041e89c"
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 1646 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "PERSON" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE.

## 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%2FHB1646-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1646-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1646-H3.pdf)
4. **HB 1646** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1646.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **84–4** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cloud — primary (person)
- Rapert — primary (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Beckham — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hillman — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Slape — cosponsor (person)
- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T22:48:10+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`
- **2021-03-09T14:31:28+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T14:31:31+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T18:54:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T13:35:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:35:17+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:47:39+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-29T13:57:07+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T13:57:15+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:02:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-01T22:24:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05T19:17:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T21:39:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:39:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20T18:21:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T20:59:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T20:59:50+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-21T22:30:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-21T22:30:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-22T14:14:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-26T18:18:27+00:00** Notification that HB1646 is now Act 931 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de50f23f-dea2-4beb-86f2-07d7650a1ba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).