republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1456.md

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Bill	CREATING THE FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2023; CONCERNING FENTANYL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; TO ESTABLISH INCREASED PENALTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	CREATING THE FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2023; CONCERNING FENTANYL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; TO ESTABLISH INCREASED PENALTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1456	Arkansas HB 1456 (2023)	bill		enacted	Gazaway Gilmore	3	18	2	2023-02-17T20:41:05+00:00	2023-04-11T14:25:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b8c0696f-62ef-4328-9612-84eea5d9cfab	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	2e74a95212df4e69b60d1256a1656f16082266d57750a7e76495321576143339	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1456 (2023) — CREATING THE FENTANYL ENFORCEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2023; CONCERNING FENTANYL AND OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; TO ESTABLISH INCREASED PENALTIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 584 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1456 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 90–4 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gazaway — primary (person)
• Gilmore — primary (person)
• B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• B. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• B. King — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• C. Penzo — cosponsor (person)
• Crowell — cosponsor (person)
• D. Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
• Flippo — cosponsor (person)
• G. Stubblefield — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)
• J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
• J. Bryant — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dismang — cosponsor (person)
• J. Dotson — cosponsor (person)
• J. English — cosponsor (person)
• J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
• J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• J. Payton — cosponsor (person)
• J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• Maddox — cosponsor (person)
• Ray — cosponsor (person)
• Rice — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17T20:41:05+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-20T23:23:12+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
• 2023-03-30T18:54:40+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-04-03T13:44:56+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-04-03T13:45:00+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-04-03T19:19:27+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-04-04T22:35:50+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T22:35:52+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-04-05T03:20:41+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-04-05T03:21:28+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T19:17:11+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T16:58:44+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T16:58:50+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-04-06T16:58:55+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T18:54:45+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T18:54:47+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T20:12:12+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-11T14:25:00+00:00 Notification that HB1456 is now Act 584 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8c0696f-62ef-4328-9612-84eea5d9cfab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).