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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES."
+description: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1457"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1457 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Furman", "K. Hammer"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-20T16:15:11+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-04T15:09:46+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a712daf-fc97-4189-9098-8420737af271"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "c5852ea995af79c0ba16cf42a1caa95641aee805945fd6daf2d318f1784a1c5d"
+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 1457 (2023) — TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 444** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=444.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1457-H1.pdf)
+3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1457-H2.pdf)
+4. **HB 1457** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1457.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Furman — primary (person)
+- K. Hammer — primary (person)
+- Achor — cosponsor (person)
+- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
+- Barker — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Beck — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Burkes — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- Dees — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
+- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
+- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean — cosponsor (person)
+- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
+- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
+- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
+- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-20T16:15:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-20T23:23:30+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`
+- **2023-02-28T14:34:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-02-28T14:34:15+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-28T17:50:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-08T18:25:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-09T14:31:06+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-09T14:31:13+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-09T16:19:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-13T19:02:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-13T21:45:07+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-13T21:45:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-28T18:50:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-29T21:14:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29T21:14:18+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-03-29T22:37:18+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-03-29T22:37:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-30T14:18:35+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-04T15:09:46+00:00** Notification that HB1457 is now Act 444 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a712daf-fc97-4189-9098-8420737af271`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+