republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-556.md

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Bill	TO CREATE THE RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINT ANTIDISCRIMINATION ACT.	TO CREATE THE RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINT ANTIDISCRIMINATION ACT.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 556	Arkansas SB 556 (2023)	bill		enacted	J. Dotson Vaught	2	20	5	2023-03-31T16:16:39+00:00	2023-04-12T13:41:09+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/391b2e7c-25a2-479b-b05c-3976ed585f0e	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	255a15a4b41a85f9662d7ac1b5d9b19444af1b8c64fc4a6db656f320c37e54e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 556 (2023) — TO CREATE THE RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINT ANTIDISCRIMINATION ACT.

Version chain

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

1. Act 788 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 556 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 29–1 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 53–28 (pass) · lower
• Motion by Rep. Duke to reconsider SB556 Passed — 49–34 (fail) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 25–5 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and failed. — 39–22 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• J. Dotson — primary (person)
• Vaught — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-31T16:16:39+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-03-31T18:02:57+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-04-03T18:05:51+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-04T21:06:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T21:06:27+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-04-04T21:17:12+00:00 Motion to expunge the vote by which SB556 passed. Motion Carried.
• 2023-04-04T21:17:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-04T21:17:25+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-04-04T22:14:40+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-04-05T01:00:05+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
• 2023-04-06T17:01:33+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-04-07T14:44:00+00:00 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2023-04-07T15:19:03+00:00 Motion by Rep. Duke to reconsider SB556 Passed
• 2023-04-07T15:19:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-07T15:19:18+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-04-07T18:11:41+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-04-07T18:11:44+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T19:10:22+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-07T19:10:24+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-12T13:41:09+00:00 Notification that SB556 is now Act 788 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/391b2e7c-25a2-479b-b05c-3976ed585f0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).