republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1547.md

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Bill	TO DEFINE "LOADED FIREARM" FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE STATUTE CONCERNING POSSESSION AND USE OF A WEAPON.	TO DEFINE "LOADED FIREARM" FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE STATUTE CONCERNING POSSESSION AND USE OF A WEAPON.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1547	Arkansas HB 1547 (2023)	bill		enacted	D. Sullivan Duffield	2	15	3	2023-03-02T21:11:11+00:00	2023-04-11T16:48:42+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/06c1d405-6c89-4492-8504-780415e55ddc	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	0dd2b53c6dce39e214a80eedaf76b420a4d91e81c6e74c2a3816b0d1dc3217c5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1547 (2023) — TO DEFINE "LOADED FIREARM" FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE STATUTE CONCERNING POSSESSION AND USE OF A WEAPON.

Version chain

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

1. Act 549 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1547 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 27–5 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 82–12 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• D. Sullivan — primary (person)
• Duffield — primary (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• S. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-02T21:11:11+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-02T22:37:52+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
• 2023-03-16T18:51:01+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-27T20:54:17+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-27T22:50:30+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-03-27T22:50:36+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30T18:26:09+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T00:56:37+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T01:38:49+00:00 Motion to expunge the vote by which HB1547 passed. Motion Carried.
• 2023-04-06T01:43:27+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T01:43:28+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T02:58:15+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T02:58:17+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:52:17+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-11T16:48:42+00:00 Notification that HB1547 is now Act 549 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06c1d405-6c89-4492-8504-780415e55ddc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).