---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO MAINTAIN A STATEWIDE SELF-EXCLUSION LIST."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO MAINTAIN A STATEWIDE SELF-EXCLUSION LIST."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1847"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1847 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Payton", "McAlindon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-18T20:37:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:11:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65911ace-c5c2-4253-953a-666d16877afa"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "121789225f051f54ec8fe574b8a0a90ba5042899acdcb97f7d2f69e198a990bf"
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 1847 (2025) — TO AUTHORIZE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO MAINTAIN A STATEWIDE SELF-EXCLUSION LIST.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 798** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=798.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1847-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1847-S1.pdf)
4. **HB 1847** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1847.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Payton — primary (person)
- McAlindon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-18T20:37:42+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-18T21:33:13+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`
- **2025-04-01T18:34:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T13:36:25+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-02T13:36:27+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-02T16:17:36+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-03T19:52:16+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04T00:14:46+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-04T00:14:57+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:41:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T12:36:20+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-09T12:36:26+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-04-09T18:14:20+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-10T21:06:31+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T21:06:44+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-10T23:06:25+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-10T23:06:32+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14T21:17:42+00:00** Returned to the Senate as requested.
- **2025-04-14T21:51:55+00:00** Returned from the House as requested.
- **2025-04-14T21:53:07+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1847 passed. Motion Carried.
- **2025-04-14T21:53:19+00:00** Receded from Amendment No. 1
- **2025-04-14T21:53:31+00:00** ORDERED ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-14T22:24:59+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-14T22:43:08+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-04-14T22:43:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T22:44:37+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T00:02:14+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T00:02:16+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:47:34+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:11:08+00:00** Notification that HB1847 is now Act 798 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65911ace-c5c2-4253-953a-666d16877afa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).