---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1246"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1246 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowery"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d770cd1-367d-4955-a437-a1eed20fc896"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "1d38c31baa4b72a8a0792e57b555745b2f980ba50a7fbb7f9721be72fb532725"
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 1246 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING RUNOFF ELECTIONS FOR COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1246** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1246.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowery — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-24** 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`
- **2019-01-30** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-02-19** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-19** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-20** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-26** Notification that HB1246 is now Act 207 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d770cd1-367d-4955-a437-a1eed20fc896`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).