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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT."
+description: "TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1468"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1468 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Long", "M. Johnson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-20T22:10:22+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T16:35:05+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6d2ba02-78fc-4b12-a82d-ee0149eba9a7"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "4c516484565d6c71fdad32b76ed9231ddadd831053315be59a970bfb532ad480"
+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 1468 (2023) — TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 542** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=542.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1468-H1.pdf)
+3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1468-H2.pdf)
+4. **HB 1468** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1468.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **20–5** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **65–18** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Long — primary (person)
+- M. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rye — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-20T22:10:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-20T23:26:07+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-07T14:32:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-07T14:32:13+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-07T16:11:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-09T18:14:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-13T19:16:01+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-14T16:59:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-15T13:31:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-15T13:31:47+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-15T15:44:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-27T19:48:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-27T22:48:35+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-27T22:48:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-29T18:36:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-05T23:10:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-05T23:11:10+00:00** Sounding of the Ballot. Five hands were seen.
+- **2023-04-05T23:11:17+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T00:15:07+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T00:15:10+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-06T14:55:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-11T16:35:05+00:00** Notification that HB1468 is now Act 542 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6d2ba02-78fc-4b12-a82d-ee0149eba9a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+