---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO SPECIFY THE CULPABLE MENTAL STATE FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES."
description: "TO SPECIFY THE CULPABLE MENTAL STATE FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1637"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1637 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Collins", "C. Tucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-15T18:07:16+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T14:54:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23ffab96-b7c5-4959-823c-6fd134056e89"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "aa4b61f5b09e00713e91fa70771996173c5774fcaff669044369fb8474c88f8a"
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 1637 (2023) — TO SPECIFY THE CULPABLE MENTAL STATE FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 736** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=736.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1637** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1637.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Collins — primary (person)
- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-15T18:07:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-15T22:58:08+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`
- **2023-03-28T23:01:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-29T19:39:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T23:30:27+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-29T23:30:34+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03T18:00:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T01:25:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T01:25:21+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:01:28+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:01:31+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:53:09+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-12T14:54:45+00:00** Notification that HB1637 is now Act 736 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23ffab96-b7c5-4959-823c-6fd134056e89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).