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type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT."
description: "TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1468"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1468 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Long", "M. Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-20T22:10:22+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-11T16:35:05+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6d2ba02-78fc-4b12-a82d-ee0149eba9a7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4c516484565d6c71fdad32b76ed9231ddadd831053315be59a970bfb532ad480"
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 1468 (2023) — TO CREATE THE GIVEN NAME ACT; AND TO PROHIBIT REQUIRING EMPLOYEES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO USE A PERSON'S PREFERRED PRONOUN, NAME, OR TITLE WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 542** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=542.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1468-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1468-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1468** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1468.pdf)
## Votes
- Read the third time and passed. — **205** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **6518** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Long — primary (person)
- M. Johnson — primary (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- McAlindon — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- Milligan — cosponsor (person)
- Richmond — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rye — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-20T22:10:22+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-20T23:26:07+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07T14:32:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-07T14:32:13+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-07T16:11:21+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-09T18:14:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13T19:16:01+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14T16:59:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-15T13:31:45+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-15T13:31:47+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-15T15:44:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-27T19:48:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-27T22:48:35+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-27T22:48:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29T18:36:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05T23:10:28+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T23:11:10+00:00** Sounding of the Ballot. Five hands were seen.
- **2023-04-05T23:11:17+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-04-06T00:15:07+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T00:15:10+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-06T14:55:10+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-11T16:35:05+00:00** Notification that HB1468 is now Act 542 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6d2ba02-78fc-4b12-a82d-ee0149eba9a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).