republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-207.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; TO REQUIRE A CANVASSER TO DISCLOSE THAT PETITION FRAUD IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; TO REQUIRE A CANVASSER TO DISCLOSE THAT PETITION FRAUD IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 207	Arkansas SB 207 (2025)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Underwood	3	27	0	2025-02-06T16:23:44+00:00	2025-02-27T21:46:49+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1cfd0b39-efdf-4fa2-a1ce-15b626e1c642	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	7f36f04cfe53efd70a2724fe56df009de56588a1bb090eff699c09a1d313ceb5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 207 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; TO REQUIRE A CANVASSER TO DISCLOSE THAT PETITION FRAUD IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 218 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 207 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06T16:23:44+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-06T17:36:44+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-11T19:45:43+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-12T20:58:39+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-12T20:58:49+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-12T20:59:00+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-02-12T22:29:47+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-02-12T23:38:41+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
• 2025-02-19T19:50:28+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2025-02-20T14:30:48+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-20T14:30:51+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-20T18:19:17+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-24T20:06:38+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-24T20:06:41+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-24T20:06:49+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-02-24T20:53:13+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-02-24T20:53:27+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-02-25T19:57:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-26T19:54:39+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-26T19:54:53+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-02-26T19:55:05+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-02-26T19:55:29+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-26T19:55:37+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-26T19:55:42+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-02-26T20:57:36+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-02-26T20:57:42+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-02-27T21:46:49+00:00 Notification that SB207 is now Act 218 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1cfd0b39-efdf-4fa2-a1ce-15b626e1c642. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).