On April 3, the Governor of Arkansas signed HB2367 and HB2353. The first bill gives the state its first statutory procedures for independent presidential candidates (a petition of 1,000 signatures). The latter bill reduces the number of signatures needed for a new party to 10,000, but decreases the amount of time to get the signatures from 150 days to 60 days.
Reducing the number of days for petition signature collection down to only 60 days is NOT a good thing. This is going to make things a LOT harder for minor parties.
I think that the legislature is mad that the Green Party got enough signatures and won their lawsuit for ballot access so they threw in this provision to reduce the number of days for signature collection purely out of spite.