LITTLE ROCK — A House committee has endorsed an effort to ask voters next year to put a voter ID requirement in Arkansas’ constitution.
The House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday advanced Resolution HJR 1016, to put the proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot in November 2018. Local Senators Scott Flippo and Linda Collins-Smith are listed as co-sponsors. The resolution now heads to the full House.
The proposal is one of two efforts to reinstate a voter ID law struck down by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2014 as unconstitutional. A House-passed proposal to reinstate the law is pending before the state Senate.