---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE PATHWAY PILOT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO CREATE THE LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE PATHWAY PILOT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1794"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1794 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-18T18:03:02+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-19T18:17:25+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/300ec0dc-d911-44ce-8757-cfb2697daf00"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "2dfd4d0ab05a915f2b74bc6beac15ea01efa4ceb7b06383d6a011497b728d24f"
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 1794 (2021) — TO CREATE THE LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE PATHWAY PILOT PROGRAM; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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%2FHB1794-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1794** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1794.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-18T18:03:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-18T22:20:11+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`
- **2021-03-29T13:57:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-29T13:57:32+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-29T18:03:12+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-06T23:06:49+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07T19:02:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T19:02:49+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-07T22:14:07+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:14:22+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T18:43:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-14T19:54:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T19:55:06+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2021-04-14T19:55:13+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:01:50+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-14T22:01:52+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-15T13:44:49+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-19T18:17:25+00:00** Notification that HB1794 is now Act 757 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/300ec0dc-d911-44ce-8757-cfb2697daf00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).