republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1003.md

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Bill	TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE LAWS REGARDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING; TO ENSURE RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE IS USED REGARDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING; AND TO REMOVE THE TERM "HEARING IMPAIRED".	TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE LAWS REGARDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING; TO ENSURE RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE IS USED REGARDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING; AND TO REMOVE THE TERM "HEARING IMPAIRED".	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1003	Arkansas HB 1003 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Davis C. Fite	2	16	2	2020-11-18T16:17:40+00:00	2021-02-09T16:20:44+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e4e95d5e-3f27-4093-a565-a601128f2478	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	8a65e5d4cae21c9a092c21817d2060a818434a3c1391220c28e988aa6d5b6947	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1003 (2021) — TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE LAWS REGARDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING; TO ENSURE RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE IS USED REGARDING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING; AND TO REMOVE THE TERM "HEARING IMPAIRED".

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1003 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 93–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Davis — primary (person)
• C. Fite — primary (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-11-18T16:17:40+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-11T20:07:20+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-01-21T14:37:52+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-01-21T14:37:56+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-01-21T15:59:44+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-01-26T16:49:24+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-01-27T19:20:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-27T23:19:15+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-01-27T23:19:45+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-03T22:07:20+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-04T19:28:29+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-04T19:28:45+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-02-04T21:50:45+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-02-04T21:50:49+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-02-05T14:05:47+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-02-09T16:20:44+00:00 Notification that HB1003 is now Act 84 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4e95d5e-3f27-4093-a565-a601128f2478. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).