---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES; AND TO CREATE A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE FOR FALSE STATEMENTS BY CANDIDATES."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES; AND TO CREATE A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE FOR FALSE STATEMENTS BY CANDIDATES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1522"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1522 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Ray"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-22T21:09:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-23T20:07:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e669a6b-0198-4364-a7ee-61687d0c35d8"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6e6cb8b1052c4e223f32333635295a31974c25434b6f1a34f2761e58359f5412"
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 1522 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS ELECTION LAW; TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES; AND TO CREATE A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE FOR FALSE STATEMENTS BY CANDIDATES.

## 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%2FHB1522-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1522-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1522** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1522.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Ray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22T21:09:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T22:10:02+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`
- **2021-03-01T14:37:02+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-01T14:37:04+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-01T17:17:57+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-03T17:29:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-04T19:26:08+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-04T19:26:12+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04T20:11:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-04T20:30:33+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T16:46:47+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T19:58:47+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T22:43:20+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-09T22:43:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T22:08:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17T20:22:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17T20:22:46+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:28:47+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-17T21:28:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-18T13:28:45+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-23T20:07:44+00:00** Notification that HB1522 is now Act 416 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e669a6b-0198-4364-a7ee-61687d0c35d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).