---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD TRAFFICKING."
description: "CONCERNING TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD TRAFFICKING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 593"
citation: "Arkansas SB 593 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-18"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1923badb-8fbf-4fce-9352-5a3c67c853f4"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a8d4a6563354f48a7abd4096839883dc9ae99ab374e50131fb25cd4ff1c1b7fa"
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 593 (2019) — CONCERNING TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON CHILD TRAFFICKING.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB 593** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB593.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- G. Leding — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-18** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-18** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-02** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-02** 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`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-08** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-08** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-09** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB593 is now Act 937 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1923badb-8fbf-4fce-9352-5a3c67c853f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).