---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERSONAL CARE SERVICE PROVIDER, PRIVATE CARE AGENCY, AND HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES AGENCY REGARDING VISITS TO A PATIENT'S HOME AND THE DISTANCE OF AN OFFICE FROM THE PATIENT'S HOME."
description: "TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERSONAL CARE SERVICE PROVIDER, PRIVATE CARE AGENCY, AND HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES AGENCY REGARDING VISITS TO A PATIENT'S HOME AND THE DISTANCE OF AN OFFICE FROM THE PATIENT'S HOME."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 468"
citation: "Arkansas SB 468 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d24ad3ca-e084-4c84-a956-e03edf750289"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "93f4830e4c36826a780437bc6c2f1fa64eb9fb5ac855ad39bca822af6a06401a"
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 468 (2019) — TO AMEND THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PERSONAL CARE SERVICE PROVIDER, PRIVATE CARE AGENCY, AND HOME HEALTHCARE SERVICES AGENCY REGARDING VISITS TO A PATIENT'S HOME AND THE DISTANCE OF AN OFFICE FROM THE PATIENT'S HOME.

## 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=SB468-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 468** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB468.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **72–15** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Sample — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-13** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-13** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-13** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-25** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-25** Amendment # 2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-25** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-26** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-26** 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`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-02** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-02** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-03** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-03** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-10** Notification that SB468 is now Act 811 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d24ad3ca-e084-4c84-a956-e03edf750289`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).