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Bill AN ACT TO ELIMINATE WRITE-IN CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS; TO AMEND ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION. AN ACT TO ELIMINATE WRITE-IN CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS; TO AMEND ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION. us/states/ar Arkansas Legislature 2023 SB 254 Arkansas SB 254 (2023)
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Arkansas SB 254 (2023) — AN ACT TO ELIMINATE WRITE-IN CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS; TO AMEND ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION.

Version chain

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

  1. Act 305 (committee substitute) — source
  2. SB 254 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 853 (pass) · lower
  • Read the third time and passed. — 183 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Crowell — primary (person)
  • Schulz — 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)
  • Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
  • Puryear — cosponsor (person)
  • R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
  • Richmond — cosponsor (person)
  • Rose — cosponsor (person)
  • Rye — cosponsor (person)
  • S. Meeks — 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.

  • 2023-02-13T17:00:11+00:00 Filed introduction
  • 2023-02-13T19:18:50+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-02-21T19:38:14+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-02-22T20:31:17+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
  • 2023-02-22T20:31:40+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
  • 2023-02-22T20:53:30+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
  • 2023-02-22T22:34:52+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
  • 2023-03-08T18:26:07+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
  • 2023-03-14T19:44:43+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
  • 2023-03-14T19:44:49+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
  • 2023-03-14T21:47:19+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
  • 2023-03-14T21:47:24+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
  • 2023-03-15T13:26:37+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
  • 2023-03-15T13:26:40+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
  • 2023-03-24T15:57:40+00:00 Notification that SB254 is now Act 305 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a708de7-9de3-447a-8481-8c744d946f4c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).