---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE STATEWIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM; TO COORDINATE VARIOUS WORKFORCE PROGRAMS; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF THE CAREER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE STATEWIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM; TO COORDINATE VARIOUS WORKFORCE PROGRAMS; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF THE CAREER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 522"
citation: "Arkansas SB 522 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-11"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e8db2ce-7bfa-4f48-b0d6-6b2d949a1211"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "13f88f0bef4c0c07e914cae3407e7e89cb792143f3560bbbc463514e3033c07e"
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 522 (2019) — TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE STATEWIDE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM; TO COORDINATE VARIOUS WORKFORCE PROGRAMS; TO AMEND THE DUTIES OF THE CAREER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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=SB522-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 522** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB522.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-11** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-26** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-26** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-28** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-28** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-28** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-03** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-03** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-03** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-05** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-05** Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-05** Returned From the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-05** Re-referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-10** House Amendment No. 1 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
- **2019-04-10** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-10** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-10** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-10** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-15** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-15** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-18** Notification that SB522 is now Act 1079 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e8db2ce-7bfa-4f48-b0d6-6b2d949a1211`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).