---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 99"
citation: "Arkansas SB 99 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cecfb240-fd6e-4938-8aa7-128618e317cd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9db9da88bb1cd8d1b6fbf3baf92be84c8cf9fe688299351ee8d9d79d17d926a8"
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 99 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - DIVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## 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=SB99-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 99** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB99.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and failed. — **52–28** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–18** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **27–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-15** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2019-03-19** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-19** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-27** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-27** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-27** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-27** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **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`
- **2019-04-08** Notification that SB99 is now Act 719 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cecfb240-fd6e-4938-8aa7-128618e317cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).