Nelda Gean Speaks (born c. 1943) is a retired county official in Mountain Home, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for a part of Baxter County in the northern portion of her state. That same month, she supported House Bill 1228, sponsored by Bob Ballinger of Carroll County, which sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion. After critics questioned the constitutionality of the measure, it was revised and signed into law in revised form, SB 975, by Governor Hutchinson.