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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND THE LAWS REGARDING SOCIAL WORK LICENSING; TO CLARIFY THE LICENSING EXEMPTION FOR STUDENTS; AND TO CHANGE THE TERM \"RECIPROCITY\" TO \"ENDORSEMENT\"."
+description: "TO AMEND THE LAWS REGARDING SOCIAL WORK LICENSING; TO CLARIFY THE LICENSING EXEMPTION FOR STUDENTS; AND TO CHANGE THE TERM \"RECIPROCITY\" TO \"ENDORSEMENT\"."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 172"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 172 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-28"
+last_action: "2019-04-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/663576c1-8f23-428f-bfb0-1572b824e4f7"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "762270eb2b6d19b241e6f9465eb7af7e9f089825d8f5914cb50c4d628a198b6a"
+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 SB 172 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAWS REGARDING SOCIAL WORK LICENSING; TO CLARIFY THE LICENSING EXEMPTION FOR STUDENTS; AND TO CHANGE THE TERM "RECIPROCITY" TO "ENDORSEMENT".
+
+## 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=SB172-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
+2. **SB 172** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB172.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- G. Leding — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-28** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-01-28** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-14** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-02-14** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
+- **2019-02-14** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-02-18** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-18** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-02-18** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-02-18** 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`
+- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-18** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-18** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-19** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
+- **2019-03-19** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
+- **2019-03-27** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
+- **2019-03-27** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
+- **2019-03-27** Rules suspended.
+- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-28** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-03-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-02** Notification that SB172 is now Act 623 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/663576c1-8f23-428f-bfb0-1572b824e4f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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