republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1159.md

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Bill	EXCUSING MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM PARTICIPATING ON A JURY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; AND TO PERMIT CERTAIN OLDER ARKANSANS TO DECLINE JURY SERVICE.	EXCUSING MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM PARTICIPATING ON A JURY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; AND TO PERMIT CERTAIN OLDER ARKANSANS TO DECLINE JURY SERVICE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1159	Arkansas HB 1159 (2021)	bill		enacted	M. Johnson S. Meeks	2	16	2	2021-01-12T17:29:56+00:00	2021-03-02T19:06:08+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c7487d19-69aa-44f5-b707-4d5071aca74b	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	b7e50d87219a08df8d1a3cf48b448f4b848f806f9318353adfced69d2f690ea4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1159 (2021) — EXCUSING MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM PARTICIPATING ON A JURY UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES; AND TO PERMIT CERTAIN OLDER ARKANSANS TO DECLINE JURY SERVICE.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1159 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 73–14 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• M. Johnson — primary (person)
• S. Meeks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-12T17:29:56+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-12T19:55:33+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
• 2021-01-27T14:43:28+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-01-27T14:43:31+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-01-27T16:23:47+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-02-04T17:52:26+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-02-08T19:40:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-08T21:24:09+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-02-08T21:24:25+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-24T19:40:25+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-25T21:20:40+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-25T21:21:14+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-02-25T23:12:59+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-02-25T23:13:00+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-02-26T18:09:43+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-03-02T19:06:08+00:00 Notification that HB1159 is now Act 222 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7487d19-69aa-44f5-b707-4d5071aca74b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).