---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS FOR WHEN AN ACTION FOR PATERNITY MAY BE BROUGHT."
description: "TO AMEND THE PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS FOR WHEN AN ACTION FOR PATERNITY MAY BE BROUGHT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Arkansas SB 312 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Haak"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-23T18:12:27+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T21:45:53+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ce7abc8-7508-4ee2-a575-2227b51f24fc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "74431d04a38b8db6befcdf765521d999d1e26543ccb8fcbcd747f3a869676fe3"
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 SB 312 (2023) — TO AMEND THE PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS FOR WHEN AN ACTION FOR PATERNITY MAY BE BROUGHT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 763** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=763.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB312-S1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB312-S2.pdf)
4. **SB 312** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB312.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **58–22** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Haak — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-23T18:12:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-23T20:19:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T14:33:16+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2023-02-28T14:33:23+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-02-28T14:33:33+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-02-28T19:17:35+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-02-28T19:17:43+00:00** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13T18:19:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14T19:28:38+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-14T19:28:44+00:00** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-14T20:50:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-15T19:38:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-15T19:38:30+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-15T21:42:17+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-15T23:02:37+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`
- **2023-04-04T18:33:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06T00:41:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T00:41:44+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:17:08+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T03:17:12+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:42:54+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-04-06T14:42:57+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-12T21:45:53+00:00** Notification that SB312 is now Act 763 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ce7abc8-7508-4ee2-a575-2227b51f24fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).