---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING VOTING MACHINES."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING VOTING MACHINES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1595"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1595 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Milligan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-02T16:15:31+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-15T18:16:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05cb324d-198c-459d-b109-74dfd936d7a4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b06edec56eefbf0bda952564e90fc1557c9d641beebee8cdf46fcf9dc2eab896"
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 1595 (2021) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING VOTING MACHINES.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1595** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1595.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Milligan — primary (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-02T16:15:31+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-02T22:59:39+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`
- **2021-03-08T16:47:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09T19:59:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T22:45:11+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-09T22:45:24+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12T18:18:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-13T19:24:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T19:25:11+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-13T21:14:03+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-13T21:14:05+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-14T13:42:18+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-15T18:16:00+00:00** Notification that HB1595 is now Act 735 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05cb324d-198c-459d-b109-74dfd936d7a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).