---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1430"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1430 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-14T22:42:50+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-06T19:36:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c121ea7a-35e0-4fa6-9723-cb96ad2363ec"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8b07a56d26e3785ed9df293671063ddaafd37b0eafc29e825fcbb3edf49ea83c"
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 1430 (2023) — TO AMEND THE DIVISION OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 196** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=196.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1430-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1430** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1430.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–15** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **29–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — primary (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- D. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14T22:42:50+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-15T22:41:23+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21T17:58:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22T14:33:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-22T14:33:49+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22T16:57:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-23T17:29:06+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-23T17:29:08+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-02-23T20:25:12+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-02-23T20:25:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01T19:33:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-02T19:10:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-02T19:10:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-03-02T19:10:38+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-02T20:22:45+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-02T20:22:47+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-02T21:08:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-06T19:36:13+00:00** Notification that HB1430 is now Act 196 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c121ea7a-35e0-4fa6-9723-cb96ad2363ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).