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Arkansas · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 516: TO ALLOW A PERSON FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OR JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS WHO IS AN APPOINTEE IN THAT POSITION TO USE THE TITLE OF THAT POSITION AS A PREFIX WHEN FILING AS A CANDIDATE.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 516 is a bill introduced in the Arkansas Senate on March 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: TO ALLOW A PERSON FILING AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OR JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS WHO IS AN APPOINTEE IN THAT POSITION TO USE THE TITLE OF THAT POSITION AS A PREFIX WHEN FILING AS A CANDIDATE. Primary sponsor: David Ray (Republican), Gilmore. Most recent recorded action (April 18, 2025): Notification that SB516 is now Act 761.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
David RayPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse69
GilmorePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Notification that SB516 is now Act 761
  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR.
  3. Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
  4. ORDERED ENROLLED
  5. Returned from the House as passed.
  6. Returned to the Senate as passed.
  7. Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
  8. Returned by the Committee Do Pass
  9. Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE
  10. RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
  11. Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
  12. Read the third time and passed.

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source