---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING BAIL BOND TRANSPARENCY."
description: "CONCERNING BAIL BOND TRANSPARENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1900"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1900 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "Scott"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-09T18:25:13+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-28T19:46:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/363302c4-2ab0-4e57-86fd-03704494733e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a8e3d7e24e50e439c43bc67b562fce9fddaa0386e163a692601054a3c86ced93"
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 1900 (2021) — CONCERNING BAIL BOND TRANSPARENCY.

## 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%2FHB1900-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1900** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1900.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- Scott — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-09T18:25:13+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-12T22:44:52+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`
- **2021-04-15T18:15:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T13:32:53+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T13:32:55+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-19T16:03:01+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T19:43:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T22:55:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:56:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:11:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-23T02:30:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-23T02:30:45+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-04-23T03:02:26+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T03:02:30+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:03:36+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-28T19:46:32+00:00** Notification that HB1900 is now Act 991 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/363302c4-2ab0-4e57-86fd-03704494733e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).