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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES; AND TO CREATE A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE FOR FALSE STATEMENTS BY CANDIDATES."
+description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES; AND TO CREATE A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE FOR FALSE STATEMENTS BY CANDIDATES."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1522"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1522 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Ray"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-22T21:09:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-23T20:07:44+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e669a6b-0198-4364-a7ee-61687d0c35d8"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "6e6cb8b1052c4e223f32333635295a31974c25434b6f1a34f2761e58359f5412"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas HB 1522 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES; AND TO CREATE A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE FOR FALSE STATEMENTS BY CANDIDATES.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1522-H1.pdf)
+2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1522-H2.pdf)
+3. **HB 1522** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1522.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
+- Ray — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-22T21:09:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-02-22T22:10:02+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-01T14:37:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-01T14:37:04+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-01T17:17:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-03T17:29:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-04T19:26:08+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-03-04T19:26:12+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-04T20:11:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-03-04T20:30:33+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-08T16:46:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-09T19:58:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-09T22:43:20+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-03-09T22:43:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16T22:08:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-17T20:22:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-17T20:22:46+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-17T21:28:47+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-17T21:28:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-18T13:28:45+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-03-23T20:07:44+00:00** Notification that HB1522 is now Act 416 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e669a6b-0198-4364-a7ee-61687d0c35d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+