---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1457"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1457 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Furman", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-20T16:15:11+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T15:09:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a712daf-fc97-4189-9098-8420737af271"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c5852ea995af79c0ba16cf42a1caa95641aee805945fd6daf2d318f1784a1c5d"
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 1457 (2023) — TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 444** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=444.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1457-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1457-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1457** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1457.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Furman — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Andrews — cosponsor (person)
- B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Beck — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Burkes — cosponsor (person)
- C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- Lynch — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- McNair — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-20T16:15:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-20T23:23:30+00:00** 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`
- **2023-02-28T14:34:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-28T14:34:15+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-28T17:50:40+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-08T18:25:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-09T14:31:06+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-09T14:31:13+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-09T16:19:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-13T19:02:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T21:45:07+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-13T21:45:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28T18:50:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29T21:14:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T21:14:18+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-29T22:37:18+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-29T22:37:22+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-30T14:18:35+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-04T15:09:46+00:00** Notification that HB1457 is now Act 444 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a712daf-fc97-4189-9098-8420737af271`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).