---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 91"
citation: "Arkansas SB 91 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Fite", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-23T19:25:02+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-24T15:56:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15dacd71-e34a-4e19-9bce-a3b29e928d6b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b6363b6f285a184d77ece1750c630497bcc4737b02324be140de37449a09b4b1"
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 91 (2023) — TO ESTABLISH THE AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 301** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=301.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FSB91-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 91** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB91.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- C. Fite — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)
- D. Garner — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- F. Love — cosponsor (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- L. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23T19:25:02+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-23T21:06:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02T14:20:39+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2023-03-02T14:20:43+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2023-03-02T14:20:50+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2023-03-02T17:37:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-03-02T17:37:11+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06T19:24:33+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07T19:42:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-07T19:42:20+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-03-07T22:04:03+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-03-07T22:42:40+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`
- **2023-03-09T18:23:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14T20:29:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-14T20:29:44+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-14T21:46:28+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-14T21:46:32+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-15T13:27:11+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-15T13:27:14+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-24T15:56:21+00:00** Notification that SB91 is now Act 301 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15dacd71-e34a-4e19-9bce-a3b29e928d6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).