---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1706"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1706 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester", "McCollum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T21:08:09+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:33:58+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64f06e69-14e4-4be2-a02b-d07a37322996"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "75796b48384cbfbdf69bf044aeac5209d7b070674c8c92e2276af6a64a4f726e"
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 1706 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTIONS; AND TO PROHIBIT RANKED CHOICE VOTING.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 829** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=829.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1706** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1706.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- McCollum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06T21:08:09+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T23:17:39+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`
- **2025-04-01T02:02:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01T20:29:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T00:23:09+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:23:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T18:29:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T20:09:19+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T20:09:33+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:06:15+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T21:06:17+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T15:55:33+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:33:58+00:00** Notification that HB1706 is now Act 829 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64f06e69-14e4-4be2-a02b-d07a37322996`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).