---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO PROHIBIT MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES FROM RESTRICTING THE USE OF AUXILIARY CONTAINERS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW TO PROHIBIT MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES FROM RESTRICTING THE USE OF AUXILIARY CONTAINERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1704"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1704 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Sullivan", "Ray"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T17:05:14+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-19T18:14:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e80dced2-d7ad-4c18-a9fb-e733500655d4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "33956ec2b3999fed89a27e55d80c2db5421739fdb19d6fc879957fcb2c80a96e"
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 1704 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW TO PROHIBIT MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES FROM RESTRICTING THE USE OF AUXILIARY CONTAINERS.

## 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%2FHB1704-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1704-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1704** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1704.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **24–6** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **69–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Sullivan — primary (person)
- Ray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T17:05:14+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T23:32:28+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23T13:32:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-23T13:32:29+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-23T15:14:17+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T21:35:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06T13:31:08+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-06T13:31:10+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06T15:35:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-07T18:29:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:12:03+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:12:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:19:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14T19:48:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T19:48:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:00:31+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:00:33+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T13:44:12+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-19T18:14:21+00:00** Notification that HB1704 is now Act 751 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e80dced2-d7ad-4c18-a9fb-e733500655d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).