---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS; AND TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PROVIDE A VOTER REGISTRATION LIST TO FEDERAL COURTS."
description: "CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS; AND TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PROVIDE A VOTER REGISTRATION LIST TO FEDERAL COURTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1870"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1870 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. McKee", "Wing"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-20T17:07:53+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:37:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3450df77-032d-478a-9f1c-170224df13ed"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7ea9a05f3035b36040ae241f4b8cfa422f52413415fa38d484729b6e211c8cf7"
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 1870 (2025) — CONCERNING VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS; AND TO ALLOW THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO PROVIDE A VOTER REGISTRATION LIST TO FEDERAL COURTS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 840** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=840.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1870-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1870** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1870.pdf)

## Sponsors

- M. McKee — primary (person)
- Wing — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20T17:07:53+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-20T22:41:52+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`
- **2025-04-02T19:56:42+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T13:37:05+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-03T13:37:07+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-03T17:29:07+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-07T19:57:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T01:11:33+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-08T01:11:41+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:50:08+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T18:57:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:57:28+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:09:34+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:09:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T14:37:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:37:46+00:00** Notification that HB1870 is now Act 840 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3450df77-032d-478a-9f1c-170224df13ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).