republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1496.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABUSE OF AN ATHLETIC CONTEST OFFICIAL.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABUSE OF AN ATHLETIC CONTEST OFFICIAL.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1496	Arkansas HB 1496 (2023)	bill		enacted	Crowell Hawk	3	16	2	2023-02-23T18:40:55+00:00	2023-03-30T15:06:05+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7e9f4c09-2fdf-473d-a186-3686624557d9	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	03e9b54bfccf71ac33ddccc7203a503331e23d92a875d8334b97546a62e0d8cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1496 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABUSE OF AN ATHLETIC CONTEST OFFICIAL.

Version chain

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

1. Act 420 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1496 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 75–4 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Crowell — primary (person)
• Hawk — primary (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• McCullough — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-23T18:40:55+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-23T21:51:03+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
• 2023-03-14T18:09:41+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-03-15T13:32:41+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-15T13:32:43+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-15T15:44:54+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-16T18:49:16+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-16T21:18:28+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-16T21:18:37+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T18:34:44+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-28T20:09:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-28T20:10:05+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-03-28T20:58:06+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-28T20:58:08+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-03-29T13:27:15+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-03-30T15:06:05+00:00 Notification that HB1496 is now Act 420 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e9f4c09-2fdf-473d-a186-3686624557d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).