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type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF ERRORS ON BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO CREATE A PROCEDURE FOR CANDIDATE REVIEW OF BALLOTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF ERRORS ON BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO CREATE A PROCEDURE FOR CANDIDATE REVIEW OF BALLOTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 293"
citation: "Arkansas SB 293 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Furman", "Stone"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-20T20:31:34+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-24T16:06:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44f93baa-3aa6-4d5b-91b9-d1e22380a8f7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "37d613ca7fe03d70422280c5de802ae8d5d076fefae1c775193e05ff67a72ee5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---
# Arkansas SB 293 (2023) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF ERRORS ON BALLOTS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING ELECTION PROCEDURES; AND TO CREATE A PROCEDURE FOR CANDIDATE REVIEW OF BALLOTS.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 308** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=308.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 293** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB293.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **970** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Furman — primary (person)
- Stone — 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)
- Crowell — cosponsor (person)
- Dees — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- Gazaway — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzales — cosponsor (person)
- Gramlich — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hawk — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — 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)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
- S. Meeks — cosponsor (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Wing — cosponsor (person)
- Womack — cosponsor (person)
- Wooten — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-20T20:31:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-20T21:34:13+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28T19:22:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-06T20:07:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-06T20:07:53+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-06T22:00:21+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-06T22:33:08+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`
- **2023-03-08T18:25:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:40:05+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T19:40:16+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-13T21:53:23+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-13T21:53:27+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-14T13:06:15+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-14T13:06:19+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24T16:06:37+00:00** Notification that SB293 is now Act 308 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44f93baa-3aa6-4d5b-91b9-d1e22380a8f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).