---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE SENTENCING PROCEDURE DURING A CAPITAL MURDER TRIAL IN THE EVENT OF ERROR OCCURRING DURING THE SENTENCING PHASE OF THE TRIAL."
description: "CONCERNING THE SENTENCING PROCEDURE DURING A CAPITAL MURDER TRIAL IN THE EVENT OF ERROR OCCURRING DURING THE SENTENCING PHASE OF THE TRIAL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1731"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1731 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "Underwood"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-15T17:49:15+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T16:25:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07b692e0-0d8e-4c9c-9509-d96675dc701f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "98a31f3eafc04394eb769d305d4f87c5bc59a57e03d0187e0529bdce47c5432b"
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 1731 (2021) — CONCERNING THE SENTENCING PROCEDURE DURING A CAPITAL MURDER TRIAL IN THE EVENT OF ERROR OCCURRING DURING THE SENTENCING PHASE OF THE TRIAL.

## 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%2FHB1731-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1731** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1731.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- Underwood — primary (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-15T17:49:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-15T22:02:25+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`
- **2021-03-18T23:29:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T13:36:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-22T13:36:05+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-22T15:31:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-23T20:45:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29T19:11:20+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-29T19:11:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07T18:28:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08T19:32:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:33:04+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:08:02+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:08:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-09T13:31:41+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-13T16:25:32+00:00** Notification that HB1731 is now Act 695 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07b692e0-0d8e-4c9c-9509-d96675dc701f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).