---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO PROHIBIT ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM REGISTERING AS LOBBYISTS."
description: "TO PROHIBIT ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM REGISTERING AS LOBBYISTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 256"
citation: "Arkansas SB 256 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Ingram"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc237c5a-afb8-4cf2-a370-3014640aa217"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5755adf0c600493131c260180862b331da3fd154b2410d4f18107af1ffffd708"
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 256 (2019) — TO PROHIBIT ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM REGISTERING AS LOBBYISTS.

## 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=SB256-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 256** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB256.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Ingram — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-02-13** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-02-13** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-13** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-18** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-18** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-21** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-21** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-26** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-02-26** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-03-05** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-03-05** Rules suspended.
- **2019-03-05** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-05** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-05** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** Notification that SB256 is now Act 342 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dc237c5a-afb8-4cf2-a370-3014640aa217`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).