---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER IDENTIFICATION; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VERIFICATION OF PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND AMENDMENT 51 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER IDENTIFICATION; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VERIFICATION OF PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND AMENDMENT 51 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1112"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1112 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Lowery"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11T17:32:02+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-03T19:00:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39bc6f76-693a-4b30-b43a-4b40683aab54"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e69e57d0d28f8f007c5497dbe428109e3d06ff4f415e7480c05026c19cb51add"
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 1112 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VOTER IDENTIFICATION; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING VERIFICATION OF PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND AMENDMENT 51 OF THE ARKANSAS CONSTITUTION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1112-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1112** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1112.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **25–9** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Lowery — primary (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Deffenbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Eaves — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- Furman — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawks — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Payton — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Rapert — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11T17:32:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-11T20:43:25+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`
- **2021-01-26T14:35:48+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-01-26T14:35:54+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-26T17:19:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-01T19:08:20+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-02T19:24:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02T21:01:30+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-02T21:01:47+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23T23:23:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24T20:27:22+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24T20:27:40+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:51:51+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-24T22:51:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-25T14:52:26+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-03T19:00:51+00:00** Notification that HB1112 is now Act 249 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39bc6f76-693a-4b30-b43a-4b40683aab54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).