---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES; AND TO REQUIRE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES TO APPEAR ON THE BALLOT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES; AND TO REQUIRE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES TO APPEAR ON THE BALLOT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1460"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1460 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Speaks"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65b74836-a85a-4f1a-ab32-9b364176ff7a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "caffadfeb42614f7bbc074e058ff9f369bc743a95235e7ae8c7b69c786186e1c"
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 1460 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES; AND TO REQUIRE UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES TO APPEAR ON THE BALLOT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1460-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1460** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1460.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **87–3** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **67–7** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Speaks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-14** 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`
- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-07** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-07** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-11** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-11** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-05** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-08** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-08** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-10** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-04-10** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-15** Notification that HB1460 is now Act 1013 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65b74836-a85a-4f1a-ab32-9b364176ff7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).