republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1213.md

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Bill	CONCERNING INDIGENT PERSONS AND THE USE OF A PUBLIC DEFENDER.	CONCERNING INDIGENT PERSONS AND THE USE OF A PUBLIC DEFENDER.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1213	Arkansas HB 1213 (2021)	bill		enacted	Maddox	2	16	2	2021-01-19T18:53:59+00:00	2021-04-01T17:05:36+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6f07c77d-8200-4014-a9b4-5b1fbf0b1f02	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	0043277e89d99fa5b8afe4ac06da8e13cbcc72031572c9324a520bc973eb9983	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1213 (2021) — CONCERNING INDIGENT PERSONS AND THE USE OF A PUBLIC DEFENDER.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1213 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–2 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maddox — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-19T18:53:59+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-01-19T21:33:44+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
• 2021-02-23T14:25:34+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-02-23T14:25:38+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-23T16:33:30+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-02T21:37:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-03T19:22:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-03T22:57:20+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-03T22:57:29+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-22T18:26:11+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-29T19:45:47+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-29T19:46:05+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-03-29T23:03:32+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-29T23:03:35+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-03-30T13:42:55+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-01T17:05:36+00:00 Notification that HB1213 is now Act 502 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f07c77d-8200-4014-a9b4-5b1fbf0b1f02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).