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---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE BALLOTS; AND TO ALLOW THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO PROMULGATE RULES REGARDING THE DUPLICATION OF DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE BALLOTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE BALLOTS; AND TO ALLOW THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO PROMULGATE RULES REGARDING THE DUPLICATION OF DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE BALLOTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1693"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1693 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawk", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-05T21:19:49+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-03T18:16:49+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5815a181-51be-43fa-8e1a-987afdae55d3"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3704a09175533d55e1bee101c9009a0a3ad101ea8ae36e7e018ef953b8940dc1"
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 HB 1693 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE BALLOTS; AND TO ALLOW THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO PROMULGATE RULES REGARDING THE DUPLICATION OF DAMAGED OR DEFECTIVE BALLOTS.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 458** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=458.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1693** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1693.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Hawk — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-05T21:19:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-05T23:22:50+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`
- **2025-03-12T23:49:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17T19:00:43+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T23:17:24+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-17T23:17:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T18:58:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31T21:50:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T21:51:43+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-31T22:44:17+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-31T22:44:19+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-01T15:19:00+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-03T18:16:49+00:00** Notification that HB1693 is now Act 458 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5815a181-51be-43fa-8e1a-987afdae55d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).