---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR TO DENY AN APPLICATION FOR PARDON, COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE, AND REMISSION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES WITH PREJUDICE."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR TO DENY AN APPLICATION FOR PARDON, COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE, AND REMISSION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES WITH PREJUDICE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1678"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1678 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beaty Jr.", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-17T18:37:16+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T14:56:29+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33cadd50-1d9d-4fcc-8ee4-58a4b9568e2c"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c33ede2018d20afeadb72c7c6d015bd4095bc57d6f9f30c0e463804bb0d4b9d1"
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 1678 (2023) — TO AUTHORIZE THE GOVERNOR TO DENY AN APPLICATION FOR PARDON, COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE, AND REMISSION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES WITH PREJUDICE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 742** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=742.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1678** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1678.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **73–18** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beaty Jr. — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-17T18:37:16+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-27T22:52:06+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30T18:54:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03T21:32:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04T00:44:39+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-04T00:44:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T19:13:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T20:36:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T20:36:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:09:32+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:09:33+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T15:38:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-12T14:56:29+00:00** Notification that HB1678 is now Act 742 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33cadd50-1d9d-4fcc-8ee4-58a4b9568e2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).