---
type: "Bill"
title: "AMENDING THE FAIR SENTENCING FOR MINORS ACT."
description: "AMENDING THE FAIR SENTENCING FOR MINORS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 652"
citation: "Arkansas SB 652 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-07T20:22:12+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T19:18:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/545a7c7e-9035-4d7c-b607-c9b985903b77"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "15fde4a37969ebf8e4e443250e89577cc57dafeb735ccd587cb531aff89a1338"
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 SB 652 (2021) — AMENDING THE FAIR SENTENCING FOR MINORS ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 652** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB652.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–2** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-07T20:22:12+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-07T21:11:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:21:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21T21:57:13+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2021-04-21T21:57:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-21T21:58:03+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2021-04-21T23:00:27+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2021-04-22T00:23:45+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`
- **2021-04-22T18:22:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-26T19:17:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-26T19:17:14+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:53:00+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2021-04-26T22:53:03+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2021-04-27T13:37:36+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2021-04-27T13:37:41+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-30T19:18:20+00:00** Notification that SB652 is now Act 1034 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/545a7c7e-9035-4d7c-b607-c9b985903b77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).