---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS TRUST CODE CONCERNING CREDITOR CLAIMS AGAINST PROPERTY HELD IN SPENDTHRIFT AND DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS TRUST CODE CONCERNING CREDITOR CLAIMS AGAINST PROPERTY HELD IN SPENDTHRIFT AND DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1718"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1718 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T22:24:11+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T18:17:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f66369a-5077-492a-bc2b-6c0be1458133"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ac44b19a57c276fa09d9d96edd96ccbaf5e598370f061130bf2db7d1f7b27c8e"
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 1718 (2021) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS TRUST CODE CONCERNING CREDITOR CLAIMS AGAINST PROPERTY HELD IN SPENDTHRIFT AND DISCRETIONARY TRUSTS.

## 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%2FHB1718-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1718** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1718.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — primary (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T22:24:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T23:38:59+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`
- **2021-03-31T01:26:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01T13:34:22+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-01T13:34:40+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-01T17:00:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T18:35:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T21:45:43+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:45:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14T18:30:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15T20:43:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T20:43:22+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:32:57+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:32:59+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-16T13:40:16+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-20T18:17:02+00:00** Notification that HB1718 is now Act 801 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f66369a-5077-492a-bc2b-6c0be1458133`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).