republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1531.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW QUALIFIED ELECTORS TO DETERMINE THE ISSUE AS TO WHETHER TO ELECT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM SINGLE-MEMBER ZONES, AT LARGE, OR A COMBINATION OF SINGLE-MEMBER ZONES AND AT LARGE.	TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW QUALIFIED ELECTORS TO DETERMINE THE ISSUE AS TO WHETHER TO ELECT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM SINGLE-MEMBER ZONES, AT LARGE, OR A COMBINATION OF SINGLE-MEMBER ZONES AND AT LARGE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1531	Arkansas HB 1531 (2023)	bill		enacted	G. Hodges J. Dotson	2	13	2	2023-03-02T16:41:58+00:00	2023-04-11T16:47:25+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c0f0965b-6893-46b4-b8bb-2b4231e7613c	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	1bd61706a331b0ec83256363f03ae89fe5a790a29631ed418cb888c91ec8503a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1531 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW TO ALLOW QUALIFIED ELECTORS TO DETERMINE THE ISSUE AS TO WHETHER TO ELECT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM SINGLE-MEMBER ZONES, AT LARGE, OR A COMBINATION OF SINGLE-MEMBER ZONES AND AT LARGE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 547 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1531 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 78–9 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 20–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• G. Hodges — primary (person)
• J. Dotson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-02T16:41:58+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-02T22:32:36+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
• 2023-03-09T18:14:47+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-14T18:53:53+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-14T21:55:25+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-14T21:55:34+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29T18:35:21+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T00:31:46+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T00:31:51+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T02:57:58+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T02:58:00+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:52:03+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-11T16:47:25+00:00 Notification that HB1531 is now Act 547 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0f0965b-6893-46b4-b8bb-2b4231e7613c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).