---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE A STUDY OF THE USE OF CERTAIN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY."
description: "TO CREATE A STUDY OF THE USE OF CERTAIN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1568"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1568 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Meeks"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-25T18:51:43+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-23T20:09:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ed0a393-15a6-41e0-845c-80eb2f73a70a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "12dd177a22b5ea3f8007b9e1db3e6bf8d1a2a98662a106ffe46311a3044400b4"
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 1568 (2021) — TO CREATE A STUDY OF THE USE OF CERTAIN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1568** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1568.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- S. Meeks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-25T18:51:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-25T23:24:06+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`
- **2021-03-03T17:30:35+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-04T19:34:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04T21:15:28+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-04T21:15:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T22:09:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18T21:23:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-18T21:24:00+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-18T23:48:56+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-18T23:49:00+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-19T18:49:31+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-23T20:09:41+00:00** Notification that HB1568 is now Act 421 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ed0a393-15a6-41e0-845c-80eb2f73a70a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).