republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1597.md

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Bill	CONCERNING THE POSSESSION AND USE OF PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.	CONCERNING THE POSSESSION AND USE OF PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1597	Arkansas HB 1597 (2021)	bill		enacted	B. Ballinger Boyd	3	19	2	2021-03-02T17:47:21+00:00	2021-04-05T18:10:27+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4825b699-2cbb-4800-89d7-d7bd0bce6614	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	78dcc14d3b3e2a9f3646755718ce1f1a324e9a7a430d3ca2b3c7c9a4ad37240a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1597 (2021) — CONCERNING THE POSSESSION AND USE OF PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1597 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 87–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Ballinger — primary (person)
• Boyd — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-02T17:47:21+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-02T23:00:09+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
• 2021-03-08T14:34:30+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-08T14:34:33+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-08T18:42:11+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-15T13:33:00+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-15T13:33:05+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-15T16:46:56+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-16T21:56:36+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-17T20:28:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-17T22:43:36+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-03-17T22:43:55+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-30T18:27:04+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-31T20:30:41+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-31T20:30:50+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-03-31T21:46:12+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-03-31T21:46:14+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-01T13:48:18+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-05T18:10:27+00:00 Notification that HB1597 is now Act 566 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4825b699-2cbb-4800-89d7-d7bd0bce6614. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).