---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, RETURNING MILITARY VETERANS, AND THEIR SPOUSES; TO PROVIDE AUTOMATIC LICENSURE; TO REQUIRE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF RULES SUBMITTED."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, RETURNING MILITARY VETERANS, AND THEIR SPOUSES; TO PROVIDE AUTOMATIC LICENSURE; TO REQUIRE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF RULES SUBMITTED."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 564"
citation: "Arkansas SB 564 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-14"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e195a545-fbe6-4d57-9fac-aeb31a510d84"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b35ed48735176c8f479a8b274b20feaf9afb34b9912dd88d1dbd55f17e27a929"
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 564 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS, RETURNING MILITARY VETERANS, AND THEIR SPOUSES; TO PROVIDE AUTOMATIC LICENSURE; TO REQUIRE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF RULES SUBMITTED.

## 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=SB564-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 564** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB564.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-14** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-14** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 and 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-28** Amendment # 1 and #2 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-28** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-01** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-01** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-01** 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`
- **2019-04-02** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-03** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-03** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-04** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-04** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-10** Notification that SB564 is now Act 820 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e195a545-fbe6-4d57-9fac-aeb31a510d84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).