---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE BALLOT TITLES FOR INITIATED MEASURES TO BE AT OR UNDER A CERTAIN READING LEVEL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO REQUIRE BALLOT TITLES FOR INITIATED MEASURES TO BE AT OR UNDER A CERTAIN READING LEVEL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1713"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1713 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Johnson", "Rose"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-10T18:05:27+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:11:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/007fc016-ea01-4dca-9799-09f577ed2b09"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d75f878f066302cbcbf7ae89c614a5168d676699feef0092173f2639101bac21"
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 1713 (2025) — TO REQUIRE BALLOT TITLES FOR INITIATED MEASURES TO BE AT OR UNDER A CERTAIN READING LEVEL; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 602** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=602.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1713-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1713** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1713.pdf)

## Sponsors

- M. Johnson — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Caldwell — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Gilmore — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- Ray — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-10T18:05:27+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-10T22:45:51+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`
- **2025-03-12T23:49:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17T13:40:27+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-17T13:40:29+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-17T17:56:27+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T19:29:18+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T19:29:36+00:00** Emergency Clause Failed of Adoption
- **2025-03-19T19:09:10+00:00** Upon Motion, Reconsideraton of the Emergency Clause Passed
- **2025-03-19T19:09:25+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-20T00:33:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T00:33:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T18:47:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T02:26:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T02:26:32+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-09T02:26:40+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:27:37+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:27:40+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:27:42+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:11:35+00:00** Notification that HB1713 is now Act 602 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/007fc016-ea01-4dca-9799-09f577ed2b09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).