republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2021/hb-1943.md

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Bill	TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR.	TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2021	HB 1943	Arkansas HB 1943 (2021)	bill		enacted	A. Clark M. Hodges	3	16	2	2021-04-19T17:51:42+00:00	2021-04-30T20:40:01+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/689aa3c8-ec0e-4659-a590-126d288b3459	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	b838bae60df8c486a8ddbaff2e33d821d10dd213b58f127c03b07a21bc574d27	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1943 (2021) — TO REDUCE THE SENTENCE CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES FROM A FELONY TO A MISDEMEANOR.

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 1943 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 75–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Clark — primary (person)
• M. Hodges — primary (person)
• Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Love — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-04-19T17:51:42+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2021-04-19T23:01:17+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
• 2021-04-22T18:21:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 & 2 committee-passage
• 2021-04-26T13:38:35+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2021-04-26T13:38:46+00:00 Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
• 2021-04-26T14:45:24+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2021-04-26T18:50:11+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-26T22:25:13+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2021-04-26T22:25:21+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-26T22:57:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-27T16:50:55+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-27T16:51:00+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2021-04-27T17:05:25+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2021-04-27T17:05:27+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2021-04-28T16:23:17+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2021-04-30T20:40:01+00:00 Notification that HB1943 is now Act 1082 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/689aa3c8-ec0e-4659-a590-126d288b3459. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).