---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE MANDATORY ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES."
description: "TO REQUIRE MANDATORY ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 174"
citation: "Arkansas SB 174 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e646f7c7-246b-494f-9c2a-cba8979dd045"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "830c3abda6511ef044e20aac23e1c8ceca5574e6977bf09b6d577be5171b7014"
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 174 (2019) — TO REQUIRE MANDATORY ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

## 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=SB174-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 174** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB174.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **30–1** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and failed. — **11–9** (fail) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — 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 JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-05** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-05** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-05** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-14** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-14** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-14** Motion to refer SB174 to PUBLIC HEALTH - SENATE failed
- **2019-02-18** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** EXPUNGED
- **2019-02-18** The vote by which SB174 Failed to Pass was expunged.
- **2019-02-25** Rules suspended.
- **2019-02-25** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-25** Amendment # 3 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-25** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-25** Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-28** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-28** 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`
- **2019-03-05** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-06** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-06** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-11** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-13** Notification that SB174 is now Act 447 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e646f7c7-246b-494f-9c2a-cba8979dd045`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).