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type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1707"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1707 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawk", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-06T22:45:15+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T22:33:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f1e0698-1014-4cb0-8c63-ee3c3aa4d94c"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "83e365cea36cfe6a9b2d678246ff4e6c8760f6b2dfd82ce5b6314ca758444e9f"
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 1707 (2025) — TO REQUIRE CERTAIN CANDIDATES TO FILE REPORTS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF INITIATED ACT 1 OF 1996; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 524** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=524.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1707** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1707.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Hawk — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- Underwood — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-06T22:45:15+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-06T23:17:54+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`
- **2025-03-19T21:09:05+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20T20:23:53+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:23:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-03-20T23:23:37+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:23:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:23:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03T18:57:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T18:59:16+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-04-03T18:59:21+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-03T20:22:42+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-03T20:22:45+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-04T16:06:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T22:33:18+00:00** Notification that HB1707 is now Act 524 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f1e0698-1014-4cb0-8c63-ee3c3aa4d94c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).