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type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING RIOT OFFENSES AND PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OFFENSES; CONCERNING OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST FIRST RESPONDERS; CONCERNING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OFFENSES; AND CONCERNING PROCEDURES UPON ARREST."
description: "CONCERNING RIOT OFFENSES AND PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OFFENSES; CONCERNING OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST FIRST RESPONDERS; CONCERNING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OFFENSES; AND CONCERNING PROCEDURES UPON ARREST."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1508"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1508 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Brown"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-22T18:57:06+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:48:25+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e181688-17dd-4448-8e7f-18c397f484f6"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e1e743407783518b77843cac48f07b9f864a5f5b28962f204e8abe57900a0817"
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 1508 (2021) — CONCERNING RIOT OFFENSES AND PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION OFFENSES; CONCERNING OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST FIRST RESPONDERS; CONCERNING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OFFENSES; AND CONCERNING PROCEDURES UPON ARREST.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1508-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1508-H2.pdf)
3. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1508-H3.pdf)
4. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1508-H4.pdf)
5. **Amendment H5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1508-H5.pdf)
6. **Amendment H6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1508-H6.pdf)
7. **HB 1508** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1508.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **790** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **285** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Brown — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Slape — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-22T18:57:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T22:06:48+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`
- **2021-03-08T14:34:17+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-08T14:34:22+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-08T18:41:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-09T14:29:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-09T14:29:43+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-09T18:59:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-15T13:36:16+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-15T13:36:22+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15T16:48:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-12T13:40:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-12T13:40:40+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12T16:08:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-15T23:46:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 5 & 6 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T13:34:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T13:35:00+00:00** Amendment No. 5 & 6 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
- **2021-04-19T16:03:34+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T19:53:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T22:14:02+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:14:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:05:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22T23:10:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T23:11:22+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:50:58+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:50:59+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:06:54+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-29T18:48:25+00:00** Notification that HB1508 is now Act 1014 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e181688-17dd-4448-8e7f-18c397f484f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).