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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.
Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 85–3 (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — 18–3 (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).