---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ELIMINATE THE NURSING HOME CONSULTANT PHARMACIST PERMIT AND THE DISEASE STATE MANAGEMENT CREDENTIAL."
description: "TO ELIMINATE THE NURSING HOME CONSULTANT PHARMACIST PERMIT AND THE DISEASE STATE MANAGEMENT CREDENTIAL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1174"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1174 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bledsoe", "Boyd"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-13T19:11:41+00:00"
last_action: "2021-02-04T19:33:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/663020a6-bdb3-4320-94bf-ca719397a44e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2fac97e32bee789a6eadcb24615a94e1804c0ee16f8633c4217240c3b2d99605"
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 HB 1174 (2021) — TO ELIMINATE THE NURSING HOME CONSULTANT PHARMACIST PERMIT AND THE DISEASE STATE MANAGEMENT CREDENTIAL.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1174** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1174.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bledsoe — primary (person)
- Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13T19:11:41+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13T22:02:24+00:00** 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`
- **2021-01-19T17:31:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21T19:33:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-21T21:04:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-01-21T21:12:42+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01T22:00:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-02T19:42:13+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02T19:42:37+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-02-02T20:19:39+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-02-02T20:19:42+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-02-02T20:36:16+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-02-04T19:33:09+00:00** Notification that HB1174 is now Act 63 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/663020a6-bdb3-4320-94bf-ca719397a44e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).