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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MARKING AND COUNTING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MARKING AND COUNTING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 250"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 250 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Long"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2023-02-10T21:00:31+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-24T16:17:42+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c53a65ed-c6ec-4445-a8ff-b3ecd1666776"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "992ff94980f11354f936329a80c876d693982baf7c1d0d4535f3138a6b8c6cc5"
+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 250 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING MARKING AND COUNTING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 350** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=350.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB250-S1.pdf)
+3. **SB 250** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB250.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **86–7** (pass) · lower
+- The Emergency Clause on Senate Bill 250 was adopted. — **27–5** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **21–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- K. Hammer — primary (person)
+- Long — primary (person)
+- Achor — cosponsor (person)
+- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Johnson — 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)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Hodges — 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. English — 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)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Johnson — 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)
+- Painter — cosponsor (person)
+- Pearce — 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)
+- Schulz — cosponsor (person)
+- Steimel — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Wing — cosponsor (person)
+- Womack — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
+- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-10T21:00:31+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-13T19:17:30+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23T22:07:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-27T19:49:42+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-02-27T19:49:48+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2023-02-27T20:40:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-02-28T21:09:29+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-28T21:10:00+00:00** Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
+- **2023-02-28T21:12:38+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed of adoption. Motion carried.
+- **2023-02-28T21:14:43+00:00** The Emergency Clause on Senate Bill 250 was adopted.
+- **2023-02-28T21:15:00+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-02-28T21:39:40+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-02-28T22:35:01+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`
+- **2023-03-13T21:57:44+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-15T20:21:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-15T20:21:08+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
+- **2023-03-15T20:21:13+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-03-15T23:35:44+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-03-15T23:35:48+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-16T13:50:55+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-03-16T13:50:57+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-24T16:17:42+00:00** Notification that SB250 is now Act 350 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c53a65ed-c6ec-4445-a8ff-b3ecd1666776`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+