---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE EXEMPTION TO LICENSURE BY THE VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD FOR CHIROPRACTORS PERFORMING CHIROPRACTIC UPON ANIMALS."
description: "TO AMEND THE EXEMPTION TO LICENSURE BY THE VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD FOR CHIROPRACTORS PERFORMING CHIROPRACTIC UPON ANIMALS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1264"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1264 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Payton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3c83f6f-d502-4967-b1a9-e69dd6904569"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6a9a377af03db0fa5635964b42fe6a48f528158e1388d7759f46844d63307cd9"
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 1264 (2019) — TO AMEND THE EXEMPTION TO LICENSURE BY THE VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD FOR CHIROPRACTORS PERFORMING CHIROPRACTIC UPON ANIMALS.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1264** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1264.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Payton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-28** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-04** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-11** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-02-11** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-11** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-12** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-13** Notification that HB1264 is now Act 139 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3c83f6f-d502-4967-b1a9-e69dd6904569`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).