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ArkansasHB12222025 Regular SessionHouse

TO REQUIRE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO REVIEW BALLOT TITLES FOR CONFLICTS WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL STATUTES; AND TO PROHIBIT THE SUBMISSION OF CONFLICTING INITIATIVE PETITIONS AND REFERENDUM PETITIONS.

Sponsored By: Kim Hammer (Republican), David Ray (Republican)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Arkansas petition sponsors face tighter rules

Arkansas’s Attorney General must review ballot titles and popular names for conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or federal laws. The Attorney General can reject the entire title, name, and petition for misleading voters or conflicting with federal law. Sponsors must redesign rejected titles and names to address these problems. The law also bars initiative and referendum petitions that conflict with the U.S. Constitution or federal laws. Sponsors cannot submit multiple conflicting petitions for review. Measures conflict when they share the same subject and general purpose but differ anywhere in their texts, titles, or names. Sponsors can submit conflicting petitions after a conflicting measure is rejected or after the next general election following its certification. The Attorney General must reject all petitions submitted in violation of this restriction. If a court invalidates one part of the law, the remaining parts stay in effect.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Kim Hammer

    Republican • Senate

  • David Ray

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 87 • No: 38

Senate vote • 2/18/2025

Senate Vote - Tuesday, February 18, 2025 11:25:24 AM

Yes: 25 • No: 8

House vote • 2/10/2025

House Vote - Monday, February 10, 2025 2:21:00 PM

Yes: 62 • No: 30 • Other: 4

Actions Timeline

  1. Notification that HB1222 is now Act 154

    2/25/2025House

  2. Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.

    2/20/2025House

  3. TO BE ENROLLED

    2/18/2025House

  4. Returned from the Senate as passed.

    2/18/2025House

  5. Returned to the House as passed.

    2/18/2025Senate

  6. Read the third time and passed.

    2/18/2025Senate

  7. Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass

    2/13/2025Senate

  8. Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE

    2/10/2025Senate

  9. Received from the House.

    2/10/2025Senate

  10. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.

    2/10/2025House

  11. REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED

    2/6/2025House

  12. Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.

    2/6/2025House

  13. Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.

    2/6/2025House

  14. Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1

    2/5/2025House

  15. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE

    1/27/2025House

  16. Filed

    1/24/2025House

Bill Text

  • HB1222 - Introduced

    1/24/2025

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  • Act Version

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