---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF KNOWINGLY EXPOSING ANOTHER PERSON TO FENTANYL."
description: "TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF KNOWINGLY EXPOSING ANOTHER PERSON TO FENTANYL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1663"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1663 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-16T20:14:23+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T14:55:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0528218d-8047-43d3-b440-5230cc05f9a0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "29d944c4b3440e4109cd320a9cf61bffe438f53597043590c05e17358d18b375"
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 1663 (2023) — TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF KNOWINGLY EXPOSING ANOTHER PERSON TO FENTANYL.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 739** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=739.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1663-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1663** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1663.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-16T20:14:23+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-16T21:46:01+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`
- **2023-03-30T18:54:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03T13:45:06+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-04-03T13:45:08+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-03T19:19:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-04T22:42:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T03:22:24+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-05T03:23:07+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T19:15:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T19:24:38+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T19:24:41+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:03:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:03:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T15:16:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-12T14:55:40+00:00** Notification that HB1663 is now Act 739 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0528218d-8047-43d3-b440-5230cc05f9a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).