---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS SPORTS RAFFLE ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS SPORTS RAFFLE ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1634"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1634 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawk", "J. Dismang"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-28T19:37:18+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T18:48:54+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70ef8ecc-d212-49a2-b614-6cc237f82ed3"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fa4faf764045d200170b64b66a324f6587d29e2e6edb370ba0a48b42c389b00f"
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 1634 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS SPORTS RAFFLE ACT; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 305** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=305.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1634** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1634.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hawk — primary (person)
- J. Dismang — primary (person)
- Achor — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- M. Shepherd — cosponsor (person)
- Maddox — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28T19:37:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-03T23:17:04+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T21:48:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:53:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T20:53:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-06T23:19:03+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-06T23:19:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T18:48:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12T21:23:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T21:23:33+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-12T21:23:38+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:05:29+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-12T22:05:31+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T15:00:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T18:48:54+00:00** Notification that HB1634 is now Act 305 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70ef8ecc-d212-49a2-b614-6cc237f82ed3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).