republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-285.md

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Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL; AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXCUSED ABSENCE FOR A STUDENT WHO ACCOMPANIES THE STUDENT'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN TO VOTE.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL; AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXCUSED ABSENCE FOR A STUDENT WHO ACCOMPANIES THE STUDENT'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN TO VOTE.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 285	Arkansas SB 285 (2023)	bill		enacted	C. Tucker Hudson	4	18	2	2023-02-17T21:52:40+00:00	2023-04-11T20:38:43+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b303093d-8308-4e02-92a4-9c9390514623	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	167580a8ce97e932047f913466c657137cf85469cd58dc9f9e908cc877d43983	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 285 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL; AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXCUSED ABSENCE FOR A STUDENT WHO ACCOMPANIES THE STUDENT'S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN TO VOTE.

Version chain

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

1. Act 621 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment S2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 285 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• C. Tucker — primary (person)
• Hudson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17T21:52:40+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-20T19:30:31+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-27T18:27:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-28T19:05:08+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-28T19:05:14+00:00 Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-28T20:34:40+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-29T18:52:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-29T18:52:11+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-29T21:04:03+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-29T23:29:45+00:00 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-04T18:02:46+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-05T23:53:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-05T23:53:09+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:16:08+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-06T03:16:11+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-06T14:40:49+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-06T14:40:51+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-11T20:38:43+00:00 Notification that SB285 is now Act 621 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b303093d-8308-4e02-92a4-9c9390514623. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).