---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CLARIFY ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE LOCKING OF SCHOOL DOORS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CLARIFY ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE LOCKING OF SCHOOL DOORS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023S1"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Arkansas SB 4 (2023S1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans", "J. English"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-09-08T20:45:19+00:00"
last_action: "2023-09-15T17:04:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15404d2c-4977-42bc-8620-dcb5a8d47e50"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8ef50034e63eb5e67c6a95c38fd9c0add64da28c6ef862f35aaf21c031cd0d37"
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 4 (2023S1) — TO CLARIFY ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING THE LOCKING OF SCHOOL DOORS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023S1%2FPublic%2F&file=3.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023S1)
2. **SB 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FBills%2F2023S1%2FPublic%2FSB4.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)
- J. English — primary (person)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-08T20:45:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-09-11T16:21:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-11T20:02:09+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2023-09-11T20:02:54+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-12T15:21:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-12T15:21:56+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-09-12T15:22:10+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-09-12T15:59:25+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-09-12T16:11:14+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-13T14:53:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-14T14:30:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-14T14:30:42+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2023-09-14T14:30:48+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-09-14T15:13:27+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-09-14T15:13:33+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-09-14T15:23:54+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-09-14T15:23:57+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-09-15T17:04:07+00:00** Notification that SB4 is now Act 3 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15404d2c-4977-42bc-8620-dcb5a8d47e50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).