---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OF FENTANYL AND HEROIN."
description: "CONCERNING THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OF FENTANYL AND HEROIN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1878"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1878 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-06T20:03:31+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-25T18:14:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b6dbebe-03ff-4532-904f-bcbcd64e940b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6f4299e7e638f9225d6e03247d461c61a0de6c77ff694996a0309648a5cb7556"
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 1878 (2021) — CONCERNING THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OF FENTANYL AND HEROIN.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1878** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1878.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-06T20:03:31+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-06T22:32:15+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`
- **2021-04-08T18:08:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12T19:42:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T22:13:41+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-12T22:13:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T19:07:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20T21:33:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T21:34:13+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:08:10+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:08:12+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:20:38+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-25T18:14:52+00:00** Notification that HB1878 is now Act 887 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b6dbebe-03ff-4532-904f-bcbcd64e940b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).