---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE THIRD DEGREE."
description: "CONCERNING THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE THIRD DEGREE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1669"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1669 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-08T21:02:18+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T20:43:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f727ba7a-5d2b-4b8b-acea-3de5d69667bd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9d29558d97df1695b5deed392f20c6ad3dc2e7efb4b51c76678f9572b62a5a45"
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 1669 (2021) — CONCERNING THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE THIRD DEGREE.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 1669** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1669.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- McCullough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08T21:02:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T22:44:03+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`
- **2021-04-06T16:30:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T18:32:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:08:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:08:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:07:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26T21:13:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T21:13:25+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:00:25+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:00:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T15:11:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T20:43:36+00:00** Notification that HB1669 is now Act 1086 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f727ba7a-5d2b-4b8b-acea-3de5d69667bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).