---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2018F"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "Arkansas SB 47 (2018F)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d627d68-76c8-41ed-afda-cf23ae285a3e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "122ddff9cf4fbd50f41a5a5aba016a38853ed968865a54d2dbb1bda25e119207"
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 47 (2018F) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF HEARING INSTRUMENT DISPENSERS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB 47** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2018F/Public/Searchable/SB47.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **31–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-30** Filed `introduction`
- **2018-02-12** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2018-02-20** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2018-02-20** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2018-02-20** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-22** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2018-02-22** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2018-02-22** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2018-02-27** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2018-02-27** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-27** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2018-02-27** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2018-02-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2018-02-27** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2018-02-27** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-01** Notification that SB47 is now Act 201 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d627d68-76c8-41ed-afda-cf23ae285a3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).