---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS AND THE MARKING AND COUNTING OF PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS AND THE MARKING AND COUNTING OF PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1687"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1687 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer", "Long"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-22T15:29:06+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T14:57:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e87b5bb6-a811-46e8-b6a3-6a044118261a"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5fa58281edebeac1680cfb97e2b650066f3343491bd14da7f4be49e7529149dc"
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 1687 (2023) — CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PAPER BALLOTS AND THE MARKING AND COUNTING OF PAPER BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 743** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=743.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1687-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1687** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1687.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–6** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-22T15:29:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-27T22:54:23+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`
- **2023-04-04T02:22:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04T13:30:40+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-04-04T13:30:42+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-04T16:31:32+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-05T00:35:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T00:35:15+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-05T03:42:17+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-05T17:34:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06T16:08:17+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07T14:52:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-07T14:52:09+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-04-07T14:52:12+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-07T16:57:53+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-07T16:57:55+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-10T12:48:27+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-12T14:57:30+00:00** Notification that HB1687 is now Act 743 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e87b5bb6-a811-46e8-b6a3-6a044118261a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).