---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR."
description: "TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1943"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1943 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "M. Hodges"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-19T17:51:42+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T20:40:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/689aa3c8-ec0e-4659-a590-126d288b3459"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b838bae60df8c486a8ddbaff2e33d821d10dd213b58f127c03b07a21bc574d27"
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 1943 (2021) — TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR.

## 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%2FHB1943-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1943-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1943** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1943.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- M. Hodges — primary (person)
- Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-19T17:51:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-19T23:01:17+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`
- **2021-04-22T18:21:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 & 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T13:38:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-26T13:38:46+00:00** Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-26T14:45:24+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-26T18:50:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T22:25:13+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-26T22:25:21+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26T22:57:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-27T16:50:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T16:51:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T17:05:25+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T17:05:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-28T16:23:17+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T20:40:01+00:00** Notification that HB1943 is now Act 1082 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/689aa3c8-ec0e-4659-a590-126d288b3459`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).