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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW IMPACTING INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; AND TO AMEND DEFINITIONS OF \"EMPLOYEE\", \"EMPLOYMENT\", AND \"EMPLOYMENT STATUS\" WITHIN TITLE 11."
+description: "TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW IMPACTING INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; AND TO AMEND DEFINITIONS OF \"EMPLOYEE\", \"EMPLOYMENT\", AND \"EMPLOYMENT STATUS\" WITHIN TITLE 11."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1850"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1850 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McCollum"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-03-15"
+last_action: "2019-04-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e153bf3d-e1bd-4348-b7f0-c4ae32ef970e"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "c7b3ab15c70715ae8c762405ab05f96d2eebc7e01b3cf4c27d94fd4f0ac60eb6"
+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 1850 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW IMPACTING INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; AND TO AMEND DEFINITIONS OF "EMPLOYEE", "EMPLOYMENT", AND "EMPLOYMENT STATUS" WITHIN TITLE 11.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB 1850** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1850.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **24–4** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and failed. — **23–4** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **82–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McCollum — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-15** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-18** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-28** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
+- **2019-04-01** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-09** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-09** Motion to Expunge the Vote
+- **2019-04-09** The vote by which HB1850 Failed to Pass was expunged.
+- **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 HB1850 is now Act 1055 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e153bf3d-e1bd-4348-b7f0-c4ae32ef970e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+