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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE BALLOT SECURITY ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF ELECTION BALLOTS."
+description: "TO CREATE THE BALLOT SECURITY ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF ELECTION BALLOTS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1487"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1487 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Lundstrum"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-22T20:14:43+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-21T19:29:36+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/193daa02-17b4-48db-9ea8-aa834b69c6b0"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "54377d66602d1f243c956f65d8235a2c110fa894792d93c85f63700c271bd4eb"
+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 1487 (2023) — TO CREATE THE BALLOT SECURITY ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF ELECTION BALLOTS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 329** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=329.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1487-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1487** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1487.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Hammer — primary (person)
+- Lundstrum — 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)
+- Furman — 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)
+- 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.
+
+- **2023-02-22T20:14:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-22T22:32:54+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`
+- **2023-03-01T18:19:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-02T14:32:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-02T14:32:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-02T16:09:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-06T20:19:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-06T22:52:58+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-06T22:53:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-14T22:26:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-16T19:36:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-16T19:36:42+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-03-16T20:26:39+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-03-16T20:26:40+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-17T13:59:52+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-03-21T19:29:36+00:00** Notification that HB1487 is now Act 329 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/193daa02-17b4-48db-9ea8-aa834b69c6b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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