---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "Arkansas SB 20 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-12-20"
last_action: "2019-02-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fea3c763-5309-419c-a545-6c7215a27918"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "efadaddf8385b4aea6a3e0e686671f10cae0fe8bcc95ab1fd6c21ef7d984fdbd"
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 20 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 20** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB20.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-20** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-04** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-04** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-04** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-04** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-02-05** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2019-02-05** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-05** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2019-02-05** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-02-05** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-02-06** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-02-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-07** Notification that SB20 is now Act 70 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fea3c763-5309-419c-a545-6c7215a27918`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).