---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO END CHILD MARRIAGE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR MARRIAGE."
description: "TO END CHILD MARRIAGE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR MARRIAGE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1708"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1708 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["V. Flowers"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b3994c9-941c-42f9-b30e-259afc4ef8a2"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a652c3ca99f567816a997250158f41c2f65e17091ae9c1217f18555e94ec2bce"
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 1708 (2019) — TO END CHILD MARRIAGE; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR MARRIAGE.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1708** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1708.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- V. Flowers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** 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`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-25** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-25** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-05** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-05** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-05** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-10** Notification that HB1708 is now Act 849 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b3994c9-941c-42f9-b30e-259afc4ef8a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).