---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE COST OF A MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATION OF A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT."
description: "CONCERNING THE COST OF A MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATION OF A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1548"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1548 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45d04da4-72e6-4d6b-8275-68ebc791d17e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9920d36051d37fc99bb190681e2d1578631063c361e0071e9601d91b0f782181"
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 1548 (2019) — CONCERNING THE COST OF A MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATION OF A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT.

## 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=HB1548-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1548** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1548.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–9** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gonzales — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-21** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-13** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-13** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-13** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-25** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-25** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-26** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-27** Notification that HB1548 is now Act 567 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45d04da4-72e6-4d6b-8275-68ebc791d17e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).