All Roll Calls
Yes: 132 • No: 0
ArkansasSB2702025 Regular SessionSenate
TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE FILING PERIODS OF CERTAIN NONPARTISAN SCHOOL BOARD AND MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES.
Sponsored By: Steve Crowell (Republican), Jeremy Wooldridge (Republican)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
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1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
School and municipal candidates share filing windows
Arkansas sets one-week filing windows that open and close at noon for the school board and municipal candidates listed below. Nonpartisan school board candidates in November elections must file during the window ending 90 days before that election. Independent municipal candidates in mayor-council cities and towns must file nominating petitions with the county clerk. Their window ends 90 days before the general election. City-manager director candidates must file petitions with the city clerk or recorder, ending 90 days before a general or special election. City-administrator candidates in general or special elections must file candidacy statements and nomination petitions with the city clerk or recorder. For those candidates, the law sets the window to end 90 days before the general election.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Steve Crowell
Republican • Senate
Jeremy Wooldridge
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/18/2025
House Vote - Tuesday, March 18, 2025 2:49:45 PM
Yes: 98 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/3/2025
Senate Vote - Monday, March 3, 2025 2:23:30 PM
Yes: 34 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Notification that SB270 is now Act 360
3/20/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
3/19/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
3/19/2025SenateORDERED ENROLLED
3/18/2025SenateReturned from the House as passed.
3/18/2025SenateReturned to the Senate as passed.
3/18/2025HouseRead the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
3/18/2025HouseReturned by the Committee Do Pass
3/12/2025HouseRead the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE- HOUSE
3/3/2025HouseRECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
3/3/2025HouseOrdered immediately transmitted to the House.
3/3/2025SenateRead the third time and passed.
3/3/2025SenateReturned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
2/27/2025SenateRead first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE
2/24/2025SenateFiled
2/24/2025Senate
Bill Text
SB270 - Introduced
2/24/2025
Act Version
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