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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO ELIMINATE WRITE-IN CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS; TO AMEND ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION."
+description: "AN ACT TO ELIMINATE WRITE-IN CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS; TO AMEND ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 254"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 254 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crowell", "Schulz"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-02-13T17:00:11+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-03-24T15:57:40+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a708de7-9de3-447a-8481-8c744d946f4c"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "28c95f7f3b2f9504226eaf4b80b989f3f2094a48042617fae15ed9eb476d4c10"
+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 254 (2023) — AN ACT TO ELIMINATE WRITE-IN CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS; TO AMEND ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 305** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=305.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **SB 254** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB254.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–3** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **18–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crowell — primary (person)
+- Schulz — 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. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
+- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — 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)
+- 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)
+- 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.
+
+- **2023-02-13T17:00:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-02-13T19:18:50+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-21T19:38:14+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-22T20:31:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-22T20:31:40+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2023-02-22T20:53:30+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2023-02-22T22:34:52+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`
+- **2023-03-08T18:26:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-14T19:44:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-14T19:44:49+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-03-14T21:47:19+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2023-03-14T21:47:24+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2023-03-15T13:26:37+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2023-03-15T13:26:40+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-24T15:57:40+00:00** Notification that SB254 is now Act 305 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a708de7-9de3-447a-8481-8c744d946f4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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