republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/hb-1615.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT; AND TO AMEND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT.	TO CREATE THE CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT; AND TO AMEND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1615	Arkansas HB 1615 (2023)	bill		enacted	G. Stubblefield Lundstrum	3	16	2	2023-03-13T21:45:49+00:00	2023-04-12T14:53:51+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/497e4f77-4245-4c52-99c5-557bcc713b86	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	ada38c45999d0e4db3096ea592f0b2c46f7ffeac29190c81a1cb4b8219e083ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1615 (2023) — TO CREATE THE CONSCIENCE PROTECTION ACT; AND TO AMEND THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 733 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1615 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 28–4 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 78–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• G. Stubblefield — primary (person)
• Lundstrum — primary (person)
• A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Unger — cosponsor (person)
• Watson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-13T21:45:49+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-13T23:01:29+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
• 2023-03-28T13:34:45+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-28T13:34:49+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-28T16:20:21+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-30T18:53:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-03T21:26:35+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T00:24:56+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-04-04T00:25:02+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-05T19:16:03+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T18:53:56+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T18:54:07+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T22:00:25+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T22:00:27+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T15:16:18+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-04-12T14:53:51+00:00 Notification that HB1615 is now Act 733 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/497e4f77-4245-4c52-99c5-557bcc713b86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).