---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF A NO CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN OFFENSES, INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING-RELATED AND TERRORISTIC THREATENING OFFENSES."
description: "CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF A NO CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN OFFENSES, INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING-RELATED AND TERRORISTIC THREATENING OFFENSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1739"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1739 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bledsoe", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-15T20:24:06+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T18:16:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/083615c9-bad8-4f58-be0d-b4daae5e190e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4a1cfb4f798bbe97b96b1d542d6099888a352f03ea5f974d637dbd12a965d4f7"
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 1739 (2021) — CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF A NO CONTACT ORDER ISSUED BY A COURT IN RELATION TO CERTAIN OFFENSES, INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING-RELATED AND TERRORISTIC THREATENING OFFENSES.

## 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%2FHB1739-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1739** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1739.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

- Bledsoe — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-15T20:24:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-15T22:04:24+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`
- **2021-03-31T01:27:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01T13:34:46+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-01T13:34:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-01T17:00:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-05T18:36:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T21:46:57+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T21:49:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14T18:33:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15T20:58:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T20:58:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:34:03+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:34:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-16T13:39:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-20T18:16:22+00:00** Notification that HB1739 is now Act 799 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/083615c9-bad8-4f58-be0d-b4daae5e190e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).