---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER TO WITNESS AN ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTING A RESIDENT OF A LONG-TERM RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY WITH ABSENTEE VOTING."
description: "TO REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER TO WITNESS AN ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTING A RESIDENT OF A LONG-TERM RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY WITH ABSENTEE VOTING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 299"
citation: "Arkansas SB 299 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Brown", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T19:20:03+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-31T18:37:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec9e2ced-2a0c-4d4e-8095-c1378303f6b7"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bc0a33baf8ae533208f6b5e383b881f6d82276915193acae082417652b8aa356"
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 299 (2025) — TO REQUIRE A STAFF MEMBER TO WITNESS AN ADMINISTRATOR ASSISTING A RESIDENT OF A LONG-TERM RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITY WITH ABSENTEE VOTING.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 403** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=403.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB299-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 299** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB299.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Brown — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T19:20:03+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T20:02:48+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T19:48:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10T18:49:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-10T18:49:53+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-10T20:12:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-11T19:16:03+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T19:16:16+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-11T21:33:55+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-11T22:02:08+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`
- **2025-03-19T21:13:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T21:07:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T21:08:08+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-20T22:42:11+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-20T22:42:17+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-03-21T14:08:14+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-03-21T14:08:18+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-31T18:37:38+00:00** Notification that SB299 is now Act 403 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec9e2ced-2a0c-4d4e-8095-c1378303f6b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).