republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1883.md

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Bill	THE WORKING ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT.	THE WORKING ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1883	Arkansas HB 1883 (2021)	bill		enacted	Christiansen	3	21	2	2021-04-07T15:09:43+00:00	2021-04-30T20:54:43+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b6a8edca-56e2-43a4-99bb-11b619eace02	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	4af85950a2fe090ed91bc92250819919a29e6e69e9b83f8536dd9996f161abf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1883 (2021) — THE WORKING ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT.

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 1883 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 28–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Christiansen — primary (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Coleman — cosponsor (person)
• Hudson — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• Payton — cosponsor (person)
• Tollett — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-07T15:09:43+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-04-07T22:19:11+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-12T22:31:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2021-04-13T19:16:32+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-13T19:16:35+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-13T19:40:38+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-13T19:44:32+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2021-04-14T21:54:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2021-04-19T13:32:31+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-19T13:32:34+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-19T16:02:47+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-19T19:41:34+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-19T22:51:05+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-19T22:52:56+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-22T19:07:21+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-26T21:42:59+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T21:43:13+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-26T23:01:24+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-26T23:01:26+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-27T15:11:27+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-30T20:54:43+00:00 Notification that HB1883 is now Act 1091 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6a8edca-56e2-43a4-99bb-11b619eace02. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).