---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VACANCY ON A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VACANCY ON A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 196"
citation: "Arkansas SB 196 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Tucker", "McCullough"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-06T19:05:52+00:00"
last_action: "2023-02-27T22:53:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48dcd4d7-3c56-4470-b1ce-41b93d3b0013"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1b035ff6415a3d4f0fc4be8b0ecfc60c9694ebc2d5bab1c584e04efd62efde5e"
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 196 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING A VACANCY ON A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=138.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB196-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 196** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB196.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Tucker — primary (person)
- McCullough — primary (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06T19:05:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-06T20:14:03+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09T17:20:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13T19:20:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-13T19:20:25+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-02-13T20:50:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-14T19:30:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-14T19:30:33+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-02-14T19:57:07+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-02-14T22:30:26+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`
- **2023-02-20T22:48:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21T20:35:08+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-21T20:35:14+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-02-21T21:56:50+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-02-21T21:57:00+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-02-22T15:50:25+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-02-22T15:50:28+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27T22:53:26+00:00** Notification that SB196 is now Act 138 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48dcd4d7-3c56-4470-b1ce-41b93d3b0013`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).