republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1878.md

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Bill	TO ENSURE EARLY VOTING ACCESS FOR ARKANSANS RESIDING IN POPULATION CENTERS; AND TO REQUIRE A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO CONDUCT EARLY VOTING IN A CITY IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.	TO ENSURE EARLY VOTING ACCESS FOR ARKANSANS RESIDING IN POPULATION CENTERS; AND TO REQUIRE A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO CONDUCT EARLY VOTING IN A CITY IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1878	Arkansas HB 1878 (2025)	bill		enacted	McGruder	2	20	0	2025-03-20T18:53:29+00:00	2025-04-22T21:00:11+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/badf80b9-2a9f-49c0-aaba-6c0e0da486dd	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	331e14f212c869470382b0bd9c439299451e6e364c95ee1cbe0857abb8485fa6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1878 (2025) — TO ENSURE EARLY VOTING ACCESS FOR ARKANSANS RESIDING IN POPULATION CENTERS; AND TO REQUIRE A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO CONDUCT EARLY VOTING IN A CITY IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.

Version chain

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

1. Act 978 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1878 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• McGruder — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-20T18:53:29+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-03-20T22:44:04+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
• 2025-04-14T21:27:19+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-15T19:22:57+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-15T21:39:18+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-04-15T21:39:29+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15T21:44:19+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-16T15:26:39+00:00 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2025-04-16T15:27:08+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1878 failed to pass. Motion Carried.
• 2025-04-16T17:48:20+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T17:49:01+00:00 Sounding of the Ballot requested on the passage of HB1878. Five Hands were seen.
• 2025-04-16T17:49:27+00:00 Upon Sounding of the Ballot HB1878 failed.
• 2025-04-16T17:49:58+00:00 Motion for Clincher. Motion Failed.
• 2025-04-16T17:50:54+00:00 Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1878 failed to pass. Motion Carried.
• 2025-04-16T17:51:09+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T17:51:16+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-04-16T18:23:20+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-04-16T18:23:23+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T18:23:24+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-04-22T21:00:11+00:00 Notification that HB1878 is now Act 978 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/badf80b9-2a9f-49c0-aaba-6c0e0da486dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).