republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-188.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC POSTING OF STATEWIDE INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC POSTING OF STATEWIDE INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 188	Arkansas SB 188 (2025)	bill		enacted	C. Tucker Ray	3	19	0	2025-02-04T19:52:37+00:00	2025-03-12T21:45:24+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/86096a59-a131-4f42-8ff8-2132a1ea5e84	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	1ea76d4ffbe3765428d4b01bb15bcb08cf22eb6322db456f80d6d3f0bc95cade	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 188 (2025) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; AND TO REQUIRE PUBLIC POSTING OF STATEWIDE INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 272 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 188 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• C. Tucker — primary (person)
• Ray — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04T19:52:37+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-04T21:22:10+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T14:18:31+00:00 Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
• 2025-02-19T14:18:49+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2025-02-19T19:32:43+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-19T19:32:52+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-02-27T18:44:46+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03T20:09:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03T20:10:04+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-03-03T22:24:00+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-03-03T23:25:23+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
• 2025-03-05T20:21:32+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-10T20:06:24+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-10T20:06:30+00:00 Returned to the Senate as passed.
• 2025-03-10T22:25:31+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2025-03-10T22:25:36+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-03-11T13:13:49+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-03-11T13:13:52+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-03-12T21:45:24+00:00 Notification that SB188 is now Act 272 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86096a59-a131-4f42-8ff8-2132a1ea5e84. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).