republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-211.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 PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; TO REQUIRE A CANVASSER TO SUBMIT AN AFFIDAVIT BEFORE SIGNATURES CAN BE COUNTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; TO REQUIRE A CANVASSER TO SUBMIT AN AFFIDAVIT BEFORE SIGNATURES CAN BE COUNTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 211	Arkansas SB 211 (2025)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer Underwood	3	29	0	2025-02-06T16:28:34+00:00	2025-03-04T21:53:18+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b6792844-aee4-48f3-8b33-b44fa2838d4e	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	5c4547378e491299ce00129cb440e056428e064e3f8a042c7d8e8185d88c3ada	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 211 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS; TO REQUIRE A CANVASSER TO SUBMIT AN AFFIDAVIT BEFORE SIGNATURES CAN BE COUNTED; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 241 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 211 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06T16:28:34+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-02-06T17:39:06+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-11T19:46:56+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-12T21:47:30+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-12T21:47:36+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-12T21:47:44+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-02-12T22:30:13+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-02-12T23:39:08+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
• 2025-02-18T02:33:00+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-19T14:45:12+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-19T14:45:19+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-19T17:28:09+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-19T17:28:16+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2025-02-24T22:43:53+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-25T20:29:45+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-25T20:31:26+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-02-25T20:31:39+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2025-02-25T21:45:31+00:00 Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
• 2025-02-25T21:56:14+00:00 Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE referral-committee
• 2025-02-27T18:45:18+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03T19:50:20+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-03-03T19:50:29+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-03-03T19:50:36+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-03-03T19:50:48+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03T19:50:56+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2025-03-03T19:51:17+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-03-03T22:24:37+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-03-03T22:24:41+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-03-04T21:53:18+00:00 Notification that SB211 is now Act 241 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6792844-aee4-48f3-8b33-b44fa2838d4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).