republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1221.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVES, REFERENDA, AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVES, REFERENDA, AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1221	Arkansas HB 1221 (2025)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Ray	2	15	0	2025-01-24T22:11:12+00:00	2025-02-25T22:50:06+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c6632fed-0f35-462d-b25a-9923aeb55ff4	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	4f10dbd2ada668313b1405eb587f907f941b5db93a88b60171169edb2c97d000	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1221 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVES, REFERENDA, AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 153 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1221 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-24T22:11:12+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-01-27T23:43:40+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
• 2025-02-05T22:28:48+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-06T21:07:42+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-06T21:07:45+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-06T23:26:42+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-02-06T23:26:56+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-13T19:36:50+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-18T17:19:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-18T17:19:37+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-18T17:19:43+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-02-18T19:34:44+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-02-18T19:34:46+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-02-20T15:26:14+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-02-25T22:50:06+00:00 Notification that HB1221 is now Act 153 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6632fed-0f35-462d-b25a-9923aeb55ff4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).