---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE COMMENCEMENT OF A PROSECUTION AND CONCERNING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES."
description: "CONCERNING THE COMMENCEMENT OF A PROSECUTION AND CONCERNING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1670"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1670 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-08T21:03:44+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T20:44:24+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4499a75a-f6f9-4cc7-a209-6d68a8c800a7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "faf5c646b61990211fc5aa28cf911e3e25768ca59ecd0b79b5b0cd8f24d66a15"
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 1670 (2021) — CONCERNING THE COMMENCEMENT OF A PROSECUTION AND CONCERNING THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1670** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1670.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-08T21:03:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-08T22:44:16+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`
- **2021-04-06T16:30:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T18:34:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:08:55+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:09:29+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:08:46+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26T21:12:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T21:12:49+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:00:38+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:00:40+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T15:11:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T20:44:24+00:00** Notification that HB1670 is now Act 1087 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4499a75a-f6f9-4cc7-a209-6d68a8c800a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).