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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO CREATE THE CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT; AND TO AMEND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT."
+description: "TO CREATE THE CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT; AND TO AMEND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1615"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1615 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["G. Stubblefield", "Lundstrum"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-13T21:45:49+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-12T14:53:51+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/497e4f77-4245-4c52-99c5-557bcc713b86"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "ada38c45999d0e4db3096ea592f0b2c46f7ffeac29190c81a1cb4b8219e083ec"
+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 1615 (2023) — TO CREATE THE CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT; AND TO AMEND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 733** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=733.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1615-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1615** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1615.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **28–4** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **78–17** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- G. Stubblefield — primary (person)
+- Lundstrum — primary (person)
+- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Unger — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-13T21:45:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-13T23:01:29+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`
+- **2023-03-28T13:34:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-28T13:34:49+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-28T16:20:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-30T18:53:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-03T21:26:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-04T00:24:56+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-04-04T00:25:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-05T19:16:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-06T18:53:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-06T18:54:07+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T22:00:25+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T22:00:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-07T15:16:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-12T14:53:51+00:00** Notification that HB1615 is now Act 733 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/497e4f77-4245-4c52-99c5-557bcc713b86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+