republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1457.md

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Bill	TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.	TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1457	Arkansas HB 1457 (2023)	bill		enacted	Furman K. Hammer	4	19	2	2023-02-20T16:15:11+00:00	2023-04-04T15:09:46+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9a712daf-fc97-4189-9098-8420737af271	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	c5852ea995af79c0ba16cf42a1caa95641aee805945fd6daf2d318f1784a1c5d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1457 (2023) — TO ESTABLISH THE ARKANSAS POLL WATCHERS BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 2023; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING POLL WATCHERS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 444 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1457 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Furman — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Fortner — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• Tosh — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-20T16:15:11+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-20T23:23:30+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
• 2023-02-28T14:34:11+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-28T14:34:15+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-02-28T17:50:40+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-08T18:25:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2023-03-09T14:31:06+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-09T14:31:13+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-09T16:19:56+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-13T19:02:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-13T21:45:07+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-13T21:45:16+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28T18:50:31+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29T21:14:11+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-29T21:14:18+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-03-29T22:37:18+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-29T22:37:22+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-03-30T14:18:35+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-04T15:09:46+00:00 Notification that HB1457 is now Act 444 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a712daf-fc97-4189-9098-8420737af271. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).