---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NEW APPOINTMENTS AND COMPENSATION PLANS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POSITION POOLS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NEW APPOINTMENTS AND COMPENSATION PLANS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POSITION POOLS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1753"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1753 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Wooten"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-16T18:00:05+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T18:20:50+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d293d573-56e2-4741-9902-abd5c5bf52cd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "60848970ee3f4d4dfc1bcce6a869db2ef178183bb8ad03c9cef4b0c1844bf44b"
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 1753 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE UNIFORM CLASSIFICATION AND COMPENSATION ACT; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING NEW APPOINTMENTS AND COMPENSATION PLANS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POSITION POOLS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1753** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1753.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Wooten — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16T18:00:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-16T21:48:34+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01T15:43:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05T19:42:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05T19:42:04+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-05T23:59:27+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-05T23:59:30+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-07T21:01:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T21:01:33+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-07T21:01:47+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-07T21:58:06+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-07T21:58:09+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-08T14:42:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-12T18:20:50+00:00** Notification that HB1753 is now Act 661 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d293d573-56e2-4741-9902-abd5c5bf52cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).