---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF DISARMING AN OFFICER."
description: "TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF DISARMING AN OFFICER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1521"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1521 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Wing"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-01T18:19:16+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T14:25:19+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b94b49b-05ef-4d80-bb59-9f8dc3d04e85"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c7f504e837c27ebd6f6c4e5cc51bb00f6262ea9e7ddedb20b6d4bf9974a372e6"
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 1521 (2023) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF DISARMING AN OFFICER.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 585** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=585.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1521-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1521-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1521** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1521.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–3** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Wing — primary (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-01T18:19:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-01T22:30:26+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`
- **2023-03-06T14:38:33+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-06T14:38:35+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-06T16:38:15+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-28T18:40:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-29T13:32:09+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-29T13:32:11+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-29T16:27:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-30T19:20:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-31T01:39:08+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-31T17:39:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T19:16:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T17:12:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T17:12:05+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:55:39+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:55:41+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T20:12:02+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T14:25:19+00:00** Notification that HB1521 is now Act 585 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b94b49b-05ef-4d80-bb59-9f8dc3d04e85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).