---
type: "Bill"
title: "THE WORKING ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT."
description: "THE WORKING ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1883"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1883 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christiansen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-07T15:09:43+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T20:54:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6a8edca-56e2-43a4-99bb-11b619eace02"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4af85950a2fe090ed91bc92250819919a29e6e69e9b83f8536dd9996f161abf7"
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 1883 (2021) — THE WORKING ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT.

## 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%2FHB1883-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1883-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1883** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1883.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **28–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Christiansen — primary (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Tollett — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-07T15:09:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-07T22:19:11+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12T22:31:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-13T19:16:32+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-13T19:16:35+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-13T19:40:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-13T19:44:32+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14T21:54:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T13:32:31+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T13:32:34+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-19T16:02:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T19:41:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T22:51:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:52:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T19:07:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-26T21:42:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T21:43:13+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:01:24+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T23:01:26+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T15:11:27+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T20:54:43+00:00** Notification that HB1883 is now Act 1091 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6a8edca-56e2-43a4-99bb-11b619eace02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).