---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE BALLOT SECURITY ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF ELECTION BALLOTS."
description: "TO CREATE THE BALLOT SECURITY ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF ELECTION BALLOTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1487"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1487 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Lundstrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-22T20:14:43+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-21T19:29:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/193daa02-17b4-48db-9ea8-aa834b69c6b0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "54377d66602d1f243c956f65d8235a2c110fa894792d93c85f63700c271bd4eb"
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 1487 (2023) — TO CREATE THE BALLOT SECURITY ACT OF 2023; AND TO AMEND ELECTION LAW CONCERNING THE HANDLING OF ELECTION BALLOTS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 329** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=329.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1487-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1487** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1487.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Lundstrum — 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)
- Furman — 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)
- 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.

- **2023-02-22T20:14:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-22T22:32:54+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`
- **2023-03-01T18:19:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02T14:32:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-02T14:32:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-02T16:09:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-06T20:19:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-06T22:52:58+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-06T22:53:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14T22:26:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16T19:36:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T19:36:42+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-16T20:26:39+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-16T20:26:40+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-17T13:59:52+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-21T19:29:36+00:00** Notification that HB1487 is now Act 329 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/193daa02-17b4-48db-9ea8-aa834b69c6b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).