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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VACANCY ON A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VACANCY ON A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 196"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 196 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "McCullough"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-06T19:05:52+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-02-27T22:53:26+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48dcd4d7-3c56-4470-b1ce-41b93d3b0013"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "1b035ff6415a3d4f0fc4be8b0ecfc60c9694ebc2d5bab1c584e04efd62efde5e"
+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 SB 196 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VACANCY ON A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=138.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB196-S1.pdf)
+3. **SB 196** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB196.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C. Tucker — primary (person)
+- McCullough — primary (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
+- Ray — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-06T19:05:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-06T20:14:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-09T17:20:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-13T19:20:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-02-13T19:20:25+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-02-13T20:50:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-02-14T19:30:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-14T19:30:33+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-02-14T19:57:07+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-02-14T22:30:26+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`
+- **2023-02-20T22:48:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-21T20:35:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21T20:35:14+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-02-21T21:56:50+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-02-21T21:57:00+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-02-22T15:50:25+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-02-22T15:50:28+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-02-27T22:53:26+00:00** Notification that SB196 is now Act 138 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48dcd4d7-3c56-4470-b1ce-41b93d3b0013`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+