---
type: "Bill"
title: "CREATING THE FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2023; CONCERNING FENTANYL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; TO ESTABLISH INCREASED PENALTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "CREATING THE FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2023; CONCERNING FENTANYL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; TO ESTABLISH INCREASED PENALTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1456"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1456 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gazaway", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-17T20:41:05+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T14:25:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8c0696f-62ef-4328-9612-84eea5d9cfab"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2e74a95212df4e69b60d1256a1656f16082266d57750a7e76495321576143339"
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 1456 (2023) — CREATING THE FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2023; CONCERNING FENTANYL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; TO ESTABLISH INCREASED PENALTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 584** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=584.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1456-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1456** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1456.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–4** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gazaway — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- B. King — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Flippo — cosponsor (person)
- G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- J. English — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-17T20:41:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-20T23:23:12+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T18:54:40+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03T13:44:56+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-04-03T13:45:00+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-03T19:19:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-04T22:35:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T22:35:52+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-05T03:20:41+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-05T03:21:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T19:17:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T16:58:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T16:58:50+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-06T16:58:55+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:54:45+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T18:54:47+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T20:12:12+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T14:25:00+00:00** Notification that HB1456 is now Act 584 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8c0696f-62ef-4328-9612-84eea5d9cfab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).