---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF INCAPACITATED PERSONS; CONCERNING TEMPORARY GUARDIANSHIPS, INCAPACITY HEARINGS, AND INCAPACITY DETERMINATIONS; AND TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF RELATIVES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF INCAPACITATED PERSONS; CONCERNING TEMPORARY GUARDIANSHIPS, INCAPACITY HEARINGS, AND INCAPACITY DETERMINATIONS; AND TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF RELATIVES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1648"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1648 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKenzie"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-04T19:55:53+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-01T17:20:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdfc768c-3083-4b51-a881-3800af258810"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4ec0afd79f08dfeedfefbaec710a52a4107dd7c9519db5d4d3e7a677da61ea03"
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 1648 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF INCAPACITATED PERSONS; CONCERNING TEMPORARY GUARDIANSHIPS, INCAPACITY HEARINGS, AND INCAPACITY DETERMINATIONS; AND TO REPEAL THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF RELATIVES.

## 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%2FHB1648-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1648-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1648** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1648.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–2** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McKenzie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-04T19:55:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-04T22:48:46+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`
- **2021-03-10T14:28:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-10T14:28:56+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-10T16:01:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-16T21:57:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-17T13:34:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-17T13:34:35+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17T18:06:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-18T18:55:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T22:36:42+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-18T22:36:54+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22T18:33:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29T21:42:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T21:42:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:18:49+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-29T23:18:51+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-30T13:47:13+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-01T17:20:37+00:00** Notification that HB1648 is now Act 516 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cdfc768c-3083-4b51-a881-3800af258810`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).