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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT-ATHLETE PUBLICITY RIGHTS ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT-ATHLETE PUBLICITY RIGHTS ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1649"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1649 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "M. Shepherd"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-16T14:48:18+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-11T14:26:50+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd7fcd14-09f4-4e51-9b00-43c33e029f13"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "21627cbbed8bd8bf7e36d5bf327a660e33f2a604fda1cea10247a1b4a2f0a75f"
+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 1649 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT-ATHLETE PUBLICITY RIGHTS ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 589** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=589.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1649-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1649** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1649.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- M. Shepherd — primary (person)
+- Achor — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
+- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
+- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
+- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- McNair — cosponsor (person)
+- Painter — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Murdock — cosponsor (person)
+- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Shephard — cosponsor (person)
+- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-16T14:48:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-16T21:42:22+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-27T13:34:07+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-03-27T13:34:09+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-27T16:49:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-03-29T19:59:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-30T20:48:55+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-30T20:48:57+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-31T01:34:31+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-03-31T17:34:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-04T17:47:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-06T01:18:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-06T01:18:33+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-04-06T01:18:39+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T03:01:42+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T03:01:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-06T14:53:20+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-11T14:26:50+00:00** Notification that HB1649 is now Act 589 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd7fcd14-09f4-4e51-9b00-43c33e029f13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+