---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ENABLE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EMPLOYEES TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE AND BE SUBJECT TO BACKGROUND CHECKS."
description: "TO ENABLE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EMPLOYEES TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE AND BE SUBJECT TO BACKGROUND CHECKS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1752"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1752 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Sample", "Fortner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-16T17:57:58+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-13T16:19:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ff23714-eb6b-43a4-bbfd-0ce49d916159"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3663d1f6440f60490ae84f77cade01d5d2995221917bbdd5a8957f8bbf6e0dfa"
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 1752 (2021) — TO ENABLE THE ARKANSAS RACING COMMISSION TO REQUIRE CERTAIN EMPLOYEES TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE AND BE SUBJECT TO BACKGROUND CHECKS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1752-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1752** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1752.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Sample — primary (person)
- Fortner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16T17:57:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-16T21:48:15+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23T18:25:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-29T13:56:17+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T13:56:20+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:00:56+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-31T18:21:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T21:34:29+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-31T21:34:37+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T22:57:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08T19:34:48+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08T19:34:58+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:06:43+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-08T20:08:24+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-09T13:31:30+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-13T16:19:46+00:00** Notification that HB1752 is now Act 682 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ff23714-eb6b-43a4-bbfd-0ce49d916159`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).