---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND AMENDING A PORTION OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990."
description: "TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND AMENDING A PORTION OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 543"
citation: "Arkansas SB 543 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cozart", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-30T00:22:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-13T14:30:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/213d231c-f914-43c2-88c1-26ae83f11c15"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "62b9bc0628b0a6696e2ee3317aa600bf3b015e1cf63da382512a0fe9230267d0"
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 543 (2023) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND AMENDING A PORTION OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 883** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=883.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 543** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB543.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cozart — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-30T00:22:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-30T18:33:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03T18:04:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04T20:53:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T20:53:59+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-04-04T22:14:14+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-04-05T00:59:04+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06T17:13:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-07T14:47:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-07T14:47:08+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-07T17:38:23+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-07T17:38:48+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T19:18:34+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-07T19:18:35+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-13T14:30:59+00:00** Notification that SB543 is now Act 883 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/213d231c-f914-43c2-88c1-26ae83f11c15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).