republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-543.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND AMENDING A PORTION OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND AMENDING A PORTION OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 543	Arkansas SB 543 (2023)	bill		enacted	Cozart K. Hammer	2	15	2	2023-03-30T00:22:00+00:00	2023-04-13T14:30:59+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/213d231c-f914-43c2-88c1-26ae83f11c15	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	62b9bc0628b0a6696e2ee3317aa600bf3b015e1cf63da382512a0fe9230267d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 543 (2023) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND AMENDING A PORTION OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1990.

Version chain

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

1. Act 883 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 543 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 31–2 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cozart — primary (person)
• K. Hammer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-30T00:22:00+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-30T18:33:12+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-03T18:04:59+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-04T20:53:51+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T20:53:59+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-04-04T22:14:14+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-04-05T00:59:04+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
• 2023-04-06T17:13:00+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-07T14:47:01+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-07T14:47:08+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-07T17:38:23+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-07T17:38:48+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T19:18:34+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-07T19:18:35+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-13T14:30:59+00:00 Notification that SB543 is now Act 883 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/213d231c-f914-43c2-88c1-26ae83f11c15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).