---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF NEWLY ENACTED LAWS AND THE ADOPTION OF REQUIRED RULES."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF NEWLY ENACTED LAWS AND THE ADOPTION OF REQUIRED RULES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1720"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1720 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dotson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-11T23:12:26+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-06T16:25:50+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2954a7f5-8558-48f6-9b5e-b4c66162a61b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a873b075307bbf2c1ba315fc20972eeea1fc6fae3cefee25f811cf015c660aa8"
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 1720 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE REVIEW OF NEWLY ENACTED LAWS AND THE ADOPTION OF REQUIRED RULES.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1720** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1720.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-11T23:12:26+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-11T23:39:21+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17T22:51:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18T19:15:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T22:32:52+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-18T22:33:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31T18:29:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01T20:31:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T20:31:33+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:23:44+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-01T22:23:47+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-05T14:51:09+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-06T16:25:50+00:00** Notification that HB1720 is now Act 595 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2954a7f5-8558-48f6-9b5e-b4c66162a61b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).