republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1521.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF DISARMING AN OFFICER.	TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF DISARMING AN OFFICER.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1521	Arkansas HB 1521 (2023)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Wing	4	19	2	2023-03-01T18:19:16+00:00	2023-04-11T14:25:19+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7b94b49b-05ef-4d80-bb59-9f8dc3d04e85	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	c7f504e837c27ebd6f6c4e5cc51bb00f6262ea9e7ddedb20b6d4bf9974a372e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1521 (2023) — TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF DISARMING AN OFFICER.

Version chain

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

1. Act 585 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1521 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 92–3 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Wing — primary (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-01T18:19:16+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-01T22:30:26+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
• 2023-03-06T14:38:33+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-06T14:38:35+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-06T16:38:15+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-28T18:40:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2023-03-29T13:32:09+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-29T13:32:11+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-29T16:27:45+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-30T19:20:51+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-31T01:39:08+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-31T17:39:41+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T19:16:42+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T17:12:00+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T17:12:05+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T18:55:39+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T18:55:41+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T20:12:02+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-11T14:25:19+00:00 Notification that HB1521 is now Act 585 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b94b49b-05ef-4d80-bb59-9f8dc3d04e85. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).