republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1646.md

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Bill	CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "PERSON" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE.	CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "PERSON" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1646	Arkansas HB 1646 (2021)	bill		enacted	Cloud Rapert	4	22	2	2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00	2021-04-26T18:18:27+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/de50f23f-dea2-4beb-86f2-07d7650a1ba9	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	a4eed3b680d98f9f8921c6a5f1691c4cd6d9a3bf4eca2dc8dbf1afbfb041e89c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1646 (2021) — CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF "PERSON" IN THE ARKANSAS CRIMINAL CODE.

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. Amendment H3 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1646 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 84–4 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cloud — primary (person)
• Rapert — primary (person)
• B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Beckham — cosponsor (person)
• Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• Bragg — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hawks — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Hillman — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Slape — cosponsor (person)
• Tollett — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-04T19:45:36+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-03-04T22:48:10+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
• 2021-03-09T14:31:28+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-09T14:31:31+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-09T18:54:03+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-15T13:35:13+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-15T13:35:17+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-15T16:47:39+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-03-29T13:57:07+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-03-29T13:57:15+00:00 Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-29T18:02:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-01T22:24:58+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-05T19:17:00+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-05T21:39:04+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-05T21:39:20+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-20T18:21:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-21T20:59:39+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-21T20:59:50+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-21T22:30:36+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-21T22:30:38+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-22T14:14:31+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-26T18:18:27+00:00 Notification that HB1646 is now Act 931 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de50f23f-dea2-4beb-86f2-07d7650a1ba9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).