republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1349.md

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Bill	CONCERNING PAID ESPORTS TOURNAMENTS.	CONCERNING PAID ESPORTS TOURNAMENTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1349	Arkansas HB 1349 (2023)	bill		enacted	J. Dotson Ray	6	37	5	2023-02-03T20:33:08+00:00	2023-04-04T15:01:37+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6885fa4f-327e-48be-b9f1-1c763de2ab1c	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	b1037667bca0759e2bde4e7364245c18a86399065f0de71c0df2176ce17cca51	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1349 (2023) — CONCERNING PAID ESPORTS TOURNAMENTS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 439 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment S3 (committee substitute) — source
6. HB 1349 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate amendment # 3 read and concurred in. — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in. — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• J. Dotson — primary (person)
• Ray — primary (person)
• V. Flowers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-03T20:33:08+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-06T22:57:28+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-08T19:21:07+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-15T20:09:18+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-15T20:09:50+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-15T21:02:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-15T21:08:55+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T19:35:21+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-23T18:22:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-23T20:27:19+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-02-23T20:27:29+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-28T19:22:20+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-01T19:39:24+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-01T19:39:32+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-01T20:54:32+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-06T20:37:10+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-06T20:37:14+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-06T20:37:21+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-06T22:38:36+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-06T22:38:43+00:00 Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-08T14:13:41+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 3
• 2023-03-08T14:13:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-08T14:13:54+00:00 Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-08T19:40:58+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-08T19:41:07+00:00 Re-referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-09T17:32:54+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-14T19:34:31+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-14T19:34:40+00:00 Returned To the House as passed as amended.
• 2023-03-14T22:01:30+00:00 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2 & 3
• 2023-03-14T22:01:42+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2023-03-29T19:59:58+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 & 2 & 3 committee-passage
• 2023-03-30T19:34:53+00:00 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2023-03-30T19:35:37+00:00 Senate amendment # 2 read and concurred in.
• 2023-03-30T19:36:25+00:00 Senate amendment # 3 read and concurred in.
• 2023-03-30T19:36:28+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-03-31T14:12:14+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-04T15:01:37+00:00 Notification that HB1349 is now Act 439 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6885fa4f-327e-48be-b9f1-1c763de2ab1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).