republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-255.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ALLOCATION OF ELECTION EXPENSES; AND TO RESTRICT THE SOURCE OF ELECTION FUNDING.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ALLOCATION OF ELECTION EXPENSES; AND TO RESTRICT THE SOURCE OF ELECTION FUNDING.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 255	Arkansas SB 255 (2023)	bill		enacted	Haak M. McKee	4	29	3	2023-02-13T18:53:32+00:00	2023-03-24T16:18:05+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f46e8b8d-c00c-4b51-bc47-02ba6d688ef9	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	771b30a0125e5f48eaf9556cd47073c2a2c5b6c61440a4e8d17fab2ed6f89fe9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 255 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ALLOCATION OF ELECTION EXPENSES; AND TO RESTRICT THE SOURCE OF ELECTION FUNDING.

Version chain

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

1. Act 352 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 255 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Haak — primary (person)
• M. McKee — 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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.

• 2023-02-13T18:53:32+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-13T19:15:38+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-21T19:38:47+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-22T19:44:39+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-02-22T19:44:51+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-02-22T20:49:47+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-02-23T18:03:58+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-23T18:04:05+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-23T20:19:52+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-23T21:56:42+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
• 2023-03-01T18:19:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-03-06T20:51:38+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2023-03-08T18:24:51+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-03-09T14:31:00+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-09T14:31:02+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-09T16:19:40+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-13T19:32:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-13T19:32:27+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-03-13T21:59:02+00:00 Returned From the House as passed, as amended # 1
• 2023-03-13T21:59:09+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T22:25:27+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-15T18:55:14+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-15T18:55:25+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2023-03-15T18:55:38+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-03-15T18:55:49+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-15T18:55:54+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-03-16T13:54:11+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-03-16T13:54:13+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-24T16:18:05+00:00 Notification that SB255 is now Act 352 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f46e8b8d-c00c-4b51-bc47-02ba6d688ef9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).