---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE SEIZURE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE SEIZURE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1315"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1315 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ennett", "L. Chesterfield"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-27T21:39:59+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-17T17:19:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db78a90d-e9e8-48e3-be30-39821e577d8d"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d15a4afe92359591b574898e32ab99bcf1c733bcb884a6cd5b88028b11a69e2b"
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 1315 (2023) — TO CREATE THE SEIZURE SAFE SCHOOLS ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 286** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=286.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1315-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1315-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1315** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1315.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **25–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ennett — primary (person)
- L. Chesterfield — primary (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-27T21:39:59+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-30T19:52:51+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`
- **2023-02-07T14:33:10+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-07T14:33:14+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-07T15:48:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-16T17:25:39+00:00** READ AND ADOPTED.
- **2023-02-16T17:26:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20T19:53:05+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27T14:32:25+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-27T14:32:29+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-27T19:03:29+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-02T17:28:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-06T20:34:10+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-06T22:44:12+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-06T22:44:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08T19:42:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-13T20:38:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T20:38:59+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-13T22:03:55+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-13T22:03:57+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-14T13:30:00+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-17T17:19:01+00:00** Notification that HB1315 is now Act 286 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db78a90d-e9e8-48e3-be30-39821e577d8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).