republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-253.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DAMAGED BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DAMAGED BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 253	Arkansas SB 253 (2023)	bill		enacted	Crowell Pilkington	3	20	2	2023-02-13T16:59:48+00:00	2023-04-19T20:51:08+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/70aa8860-71ce-43b7-b3bd-d5c7bf80f416	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	76f3750323901ee0b79de56ee1731874d4176f5d6c06746337d98d9d0c8ad712	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 253 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DAMAGED BALLOTS; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 460 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 253 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Crowell — primary (person)
• Pilkington — primary (person)
• Achor — cosponsor (person)
• Andrews — cosponsor (person)
• B. McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
• Barker — cosponsor (person)
• Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Beck — cosponsor (person)
• Bentley — cosponsor (person)
• Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Burkes — cosponsor (person)
• C. Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Cozart — cosponsor (person)
• Dees — cosponsor (person)
• Evans — cosponsor (person)
• Fortner — cosponsor (person)
• Furman — cosponsor (person)
• Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
• Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
• Haak — cosponsor (person)
• Hawk — cosponsor (person)
• Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
• J. Petty — cosponsor (person)
• Jean — cosponsor (person)
• Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• K. Hammer — cosponsor (person)
• K. Moore — cosponsor (person)
• L. Fite — cosponsor (person)
• Ladyman — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
• Lynch — cosponsor (person)
• M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
• M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• M. McElroy — cosponsor (person)
• M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
• McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
• McClure — cosponsor (person)
• McCollum — cosponsor (person)
• McGrew — cosponsor (person)
• McNair — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Milligan — cosponsor (person)
• Painter — cosponsor (person)
• Pearce — cosponsor (person)
• Puryear — cosponsor (person)
• R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Richmond — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rye — cosponsor (person)
• S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
• Schulz — cosponsor (person)
• Steimel — cosponsor (person)
• Stone — cosponsor (person)
• Tosh — cosponsor (person)
• Underwood — cosponsor (person)
• Vaught — cosponsor (person)
• Wing — cosponsor (person)
• Womack — cosponsor (person)
• Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)
• Wooten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13T16:59:48+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-13T19:18:31+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-07T14:22:10+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2023-03-07T14:22:14+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-07T14:22:19+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-07T19:18:09+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-07T19:18:16+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-09T17:37:49+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-13T18:53:05+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-13T18:55:16+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-13T21:59:38+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-13T23:04:37+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30T02:00:56+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-30T21:43:43+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-30T21:43:51+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-03-31T16:50:52+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-03-31T16:50:57+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-31T17:03:09+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-31T17:03:10+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-19T20:51:08+00:00 Notification that SB253 is now Act 460 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70aa8860-71ce-43b7-b3bd-d5c7bf80f416. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).