---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK POLICY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE SERVICES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO ESTABLISH A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK POLICY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE SERVICES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Arkansas SB 296 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Hammer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72b1a41e-6d6f-432e-8624-f6836aacf91e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e4578e7e2d5b6a9301041dd32288b4c97813d3391bfa3cdf295b4792f911d1e7"
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 296 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK POLICY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE SERVICES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 296** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB296.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** 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`
- **2019-02-19** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-02-19** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-02-19** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-02-19** 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`
- **2019-02-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-05** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-05** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-05** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-06** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** Notification that SB296 is now Act 373 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72b1a41e-6d6f-432e-8624-f6836aacf91e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).