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Bill TO CREATE THE ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL ARKANSANS AND VOTER PROTECTION ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE PROCEDURE FOR THE FILING OF A BALLOT INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. TO CREATE THE ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL ARKANSANS AND VOTER PROTECTION ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE PROCEDURE FOR THE FILING OF A BALLOT INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY. us/states/ar Arkansas Legislature 2023 HB 1419 Arkansas HB 1419 (2023)
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Arkansas HB 1419 (2023) — TO CREATE THE ENSURING ACCESS FOR ALL ARKANSANS AND VOTER PROTECTION ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE PROCEDURE FOR THE FILING OF A BALLOT INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITION; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

  1. Act 236 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. HB 1419 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Read the third time and passed. — 218 (pass) · upper
  • The Emergency Clause of HB1419 was adopted. — 247 (pass) · upper
  • Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 7919 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • J. Dotson — primary (person)
  • Underwood — primary (person)
  • Achor — cosponsor (person)
  • B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
  • G. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
  • Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
  • Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
  • Hester — cosponsor (person)
  • J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
  • John Carr — cosponsor (person)
  • Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
  • McCollum — cosponsor (person)
  • Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
  • Rose — cosponsor (person)
  • Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-13T22:24:24+00:00 Filed introduction
  • 2023-02-13T22:36:00+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
  • 2023-02-20T22:48:27+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
  • 2023-02-21T14:31:12+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
  • 2023-02-21T14:31:14+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
  • 2023-02-21T16:10:18+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
  • 2023-02-22T20:09:19+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
  • 2023-02-22T20:09:21+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
  • 2023-02-22T23:03:48+00:00 Received from the House.
  • 2023-02-22T23:04:05+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-03-02T17:41:30+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-03-06T21:18:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
  • 2023-03-06T21:18:48+00:00 Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
  • 2023-03-06T21:24:25+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which the Emergency Clause failed of adoption. Motion Carried.
  • 2023-03-06T21:24:53+00:00 The Emergency Clause of HB1419 was adopted.
  • 2023-03-06T21:25:28+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
  • 2023-03-06T22:04:15+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
  • 2023-03-06T22:04:17+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
  • 2023-03-07T13:54:40+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
  • 2023-03-07T19:49:40+00:00 Notification that HB1419 is now Act 236 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5f85074e-7cae-48cf-8ce9-2d0a9adbc7c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).