republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1516.md

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Bill	PERMITTING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO TRANSPORT A PERSON IN CRISIS TO A SOBERING CENTER.	PERMITTING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO TRANSPORT A PERSON IN CRISIS TO A SOBERING CENTER.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1516	Arkansas HB 1516 (2021)	bill		enacted	Boyd J. Sturch	2	16	2	2021-02-22T20:02:46+00:00	2021-04-06T16:22:57+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5a1ab550-db6f-4c68-b10f-d01459f5a800	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	49c970ba2aa2fe4fbf1cd2f21085f8c3a05ca980eb1076f34bdc77856db295a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1516 (2021) — PERMITTING A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO TRANSPORT A PERSON IN CRISIS TO A SOBERING CENTER.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1516 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 92–1 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Boyd — primary (person)
• J. Sturch — primary (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-22T20:02:46+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-02-22T22:08:47+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
• 2021-03-02T14:35:22+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-02T14:35:25+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-02T16:56:59+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-10T01:07:34+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-10T20:04:02+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-10T22:17:35+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-10T22:17:48+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-17T22:54:00+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-01T19:53:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-01T19:53:59+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-01T22:20:54+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-01T22:20:58+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-05T14:49:39+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-06T16:22:57+00:00 Notification that HB1516 is now Act 587 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a1ab550-db6f-4c68-b10f-d01459f5a800. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).