---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE KEEP ARKANSANS WORKING ACT OF 2019; AND TO ENSURE THAT DEFAULT OR DELINQUENT STUDENT LOANS OR SCHOLARSHIPS DO NOT RESULT IN SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF A LICENSE."
description: "TO CREATE THE KEEP ARKANSANS WORKING ACT OF 2019; AND TO ENSURE THAT DEFAULT OR DELINQUENT STUDENT LOANS OR SCHOLARSHIPS DO NOT RESULT IN SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF A LICENSE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1296"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1296 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCollum"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-29"
last_action: "2019-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78cbdf03-9db8-405e-bb25-773a8fbb4be6"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "aa7cd5c29a3478838df595f8ac8cc4a7e8f33eac9bc71d4fb5b543c42fca28bf"
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 1296 (2019) — TO CREATE THE KEEP ARKANSANS WORKING ACT OF 2019; AND TO ENSURE THAT DEFAULT OR DELINQUENT STUDENT LOANS OR SCHOLARSHIPS DO NOT RESULT IN SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF A LICENSE.

## 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=HB1296-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1296** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1296.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **24–5** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and failed. — **14–7** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCollum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-29** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-30** 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`
- **2019-01-31** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-04** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-04** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-04** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-06** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-06** 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 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** Rules suspended.
- **2019-02-18** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** EXPUNGED
- **2019-02-18** The vote by which HB1296 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-02-25** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-02-25** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-25** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-26** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-28** Notification that HB1296 is now Act 250 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78cbdf03-9db8-405e-bb25-773a8fbb4be6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).