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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INFORM AN EDUCATIONAL ENTITY TO WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL IS APPLYING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND CHECKS."
+description: "TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INFORM AN EDUCATIONAL ENTITY TO WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL IS APPLYING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND CHECKS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1700"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1700 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wooten"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-05"
+last_action: "2019-04-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b69cf94-f0e5-4744-9ff6-8f74209fddc4"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "5275d1a2ce53d76f6ea794a9f30773bf66254748d4096b3a7938bdd659988d13"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas HB 1700 (2019) — TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INFORM AN EDUCATIONAL ENTITY TO WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL IS APPLYING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND CHECKS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1700-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **HB 1700** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1700.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wooten — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-05** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-29** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-29** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-02** Received from the House.
+- **2019-04-02** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-05** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-09** Returned to the House as Passed.
+- **2019-04-09** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-04-09** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2019-04-10** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2019-04-17** Notification that HB1700 is now Act 1040 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b69cf94-f0e5-4744-9ff6-8f74209fddc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+