---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 497"
citation: "Arkansas SB 497 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13e353d6-d3d3-45b1-b3f0-f159a08a6e64"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e5fb0c444945769fdc852865be4a8677d1b97fc3755adcd0ffcf673ebfbedacf"
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 497 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION UNDER THE CHILD MALTREATMENT ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 497** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB497.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-14** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-14** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-26** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-26** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-26** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-26** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-27** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-27** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-01** Notification that SB497 is now Act 590 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13e353d6-d3d3-45b1-b3f0-f159a08a6e64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).