republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1468.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.	TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1468	Arkansas HB 1468 (2023)	bill		enacted	Long M. Johnson	4	22	2	2023-02-20T22:10:22+00:00	2023-04-11T16:35:05+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c6d2ba02-78fc-4b12-a82d-ee0149eba9a7	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	4c516484565d6c71fdad32b76ed9231ddadd831053315be59a970bfb532ad480	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1468 (2023) — TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 542 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB 1468 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 20–5 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 65–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Long — primary (person)
• M. Johnson — primary (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-20T22:10:22+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-20T23:26:07+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-07T14:32:11+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-07T14:32:13+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-07T16:11:21+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-09T18:14:29+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-13T19:16:01+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T16:59:55+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2023-03-15T13:31:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-15T13:31:47+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-15T15:44:31+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-27T19:48:36+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-27T22:48:35+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-27T22:48:46+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29T18:36:10+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-05T23:10:28+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-05T23:11:10+00:00 Sounding of the Ballot. Five hands were seen.
• 2023-04-05T23:11:17+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T00:15:07+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T00:15:10+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:55:10+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-11T16:35:05+00:00 Notification that HB1468 is now Act 542 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6d2ba02-78fc-4b12-a82d-ee0149eba9a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).