---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSURE COMPACT."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSURE COMPACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 101"
citation: "Arkansas SB 101 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Penzo", "Gramlich"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23T22:50:44+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T20:58:05+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/109a30e8-0f8e-4f42-9bbb-0e5127ed6009"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e09e97bd8bc19ac79c32234dc87da58641eeeb006196ad395cfa38debd7452f4"
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 101 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSURE COMPACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 300** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=300.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB101-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 101** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB101.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Penzo — primary (person)
- Gramlich — primary (person)
- Springer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23T22:50:44+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-23T23:08:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17T14:00:46+00:00** Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
- **2025-02-17T14:00:57+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-02-17T19:49:51+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-17T19:49:56+00:00** Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T23:21:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T19:53:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T19:53:45+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-03-03T22:23:22+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-03-03T23:22:52+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`
- **2025-03-11T19:17:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T19:23:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T19:24:02+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-12T21:40:14+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-03-12T21:40:18+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-03-13T13:04:10+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-03-13T13:04:13+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-18T20:58:05+00:00** Notification that SB101 is now Act 300 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/109a30e8-0f8e-4f42-9bbb-0e5127ed6009`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).