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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE USE OF RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE WHEN REFERRING TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES."
+description: "TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE USE OF RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE WHEN REFERRING TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1296"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1296 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "Gazaway"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-01-26T19:46:04+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-10T21:17:32+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efe8d802-8a91-44d1-963a-cb0f24f868d9"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "afaf2b1f2b480679c5406c8a1cb4933f2d0b70ea5b6468d9d2bc1d60f3d9997d"
+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 1296 (2023) — TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE USE OF RESPECTFUL LANGUAGE WHEN REFERRING TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 503** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=503.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1296-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1296** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1296.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–3** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C. Tucker — primary (person)
+- Gazaway — primary (person)
+- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-26T19:46:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-01-26T22:49:42+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`
+- **2023-03-16T18:51:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-27T13:31:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-27T13:31:04+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-27T16:48:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-28T19:10:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-28T22:12:27+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-28T22:12:33+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-03T17:58:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-04T20:37:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-04T20:37:03+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
+- **2023-04-04T22:20:04+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-04T22:20:08+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-05T14:08:41+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-10T21:17:32+00:00** Notification that HB1296 is now Act 503 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efe8d802-8a91-44d1-963a-cb0f24f868d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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