---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO EXEMPT A SEPTIC SYSTEM INSTALLER LICENSED UNDER THE ARKANSAS SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS ACT FROM LICENSURE AS A PLUMBER."
description: "TO EXEMPT A SEPTIC SYSTEM INSTALLER LICENSED UNDER THE ARKANSAS SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS ACT FROM LICENSURE AS A PLUMBER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1447"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1447 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill", "Long"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-11T17:13:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-06T19:34:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d270477d-3962-4420-9ab6-2038b3d2640b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "4b516ff97c5a6302bb52edb3c6df963999a4566b3a822bb96be84fa28ebceca9"
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 1447 (2025) — TO EXEMPT A SEPTIC SYSTEM INSTALLER LICENSED UNDER THE ARKANSAS SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS ACT FROM LICENSURE AS A PLUMBER.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 255** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=255.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1447-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1447** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1447.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11T17:13:06+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-11T22:46:21+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`
- **2025-02-18T20:40:02+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19T19:51:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19T22:43:53+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-19T22:44:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T23:25:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27T19:04:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-27T19:04:34+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-27T20:13:18+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-03T21:03:07+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T21:03:38+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-03-03T22:20:48+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-03-04T20:04:35+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-03-04T20:04:49+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-04T20:04:53+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-06T19:34:15+00:00** Notification that HB1447 is now Act 255 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d270477d-3962-4420-9ab6-2038b3d2640b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).