---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; AND TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT OF A PROVISIONAL BALLOT STUB IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; AND TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT OF A PROVISIONAL BALLOT STUB IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "Arkansas SB 159 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd913363-ba11-4d04-86db-b8fe1b959938"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "da3a08da1d8158cbba5b51ed6c6aae1ea513fae1d532977e63d890cc88ede970"
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 159 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; AND TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT OF A PROVISIONAL BALLOT STUB IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB 159** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB159.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **83–7** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-23** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-01-30** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-01-30** 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`
- **2019-02-06** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-11** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-11** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-02-12** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-02-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-13** Notification that SB159 is now Act 109 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd913363-ba11-4d04-86db-b8fe1b959938`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).