---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE TAKING OF FINGERPRINTS, A DNA SAMPLE, AND PHOTOGRAPH FOR A PERSON ARRESTED FOR A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR."
description: "CONCERNING THE TAKING OF FINGERPRINTS, A DNA SAMPLE, AND PHOTOGRAPH FOR A PERSON ARRESTED FOR A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1696"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1696 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crawford", "G. Stubblefield"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-10T20:52:11+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-27T20:08:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94e36681-d1d4-4056-b3fc-9f119a87ae97"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9094a9181959c7504285a2e3b332e745d367ee7aed04bd6489547f04454622f1"
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 1696 (2021) — CONCERNING THE TAKING OF FINGERPRINTS, A DNA SAMPLE, AND PHOTOGRAPH FOR A PERSON ARRESTED FOR A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.

## 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%2FHB1696-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1696-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1696** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1696.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crawford — primary (person)
- G. Stubblefield — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-10T20:52:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-10T23:45:27+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`
- **2021-03-16T13:44:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-16T13:44:53+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-16T16:22:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-17T13:31:59+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-17T13:32:03+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17T16:12:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-08T18:07:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12T19:32:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T22:03:58+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-12T22:04:09+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:24:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22T23:48:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T23:48:41+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:52:05+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:52:07+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:06:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-27T20:08:18+00:00** Notification that HB1696 is now Act 962 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94e36681-d1d4-4056-b3fc-9f119a87ae97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).