---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT OF THE STATE DISTRICT COURT SYSTEM."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT OF THE STATE DISTRICT COURT SYSTEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1165"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1165 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicks", "R. Murdock"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-18T20:10:48+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-09T22:24:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eed8047f-f0ee-4fa4-ac9b-38008b5d5511"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "cfee5cd31d9b4d1f6ff02ad909cb06cd4943637499e70a112ac00e04c0f6301e"
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 1165 (2023) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT OF THE STATE DISTRICT COURT SYSTEM.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=40.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1165-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1165** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1165.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nicks — primary (person)
- R. Murdock — primary (person)
- D. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18T20:10:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-18T22:33:18+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`
- **2023-01-24T16:46:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25T14:31:49+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-01-25T14:31:52+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-25T15:58:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-01-26T17:12:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26T20:16:34+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-01-26T20:16:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01T19:10:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-06T19:53:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06T19:53:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-02-06T20:15:44+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-02-06T20:15:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-02-06T20:48:13+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-02-09T22:24:38+00:00** Notification that HB1165 is now Act 40 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eed8047f-f0ee-4fa4-ac9b-38008b5d5511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).