---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1168"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1168 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e9e403a-77c6-4dbb-b15d-e0697aedc940"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "93e1da6591c3b4404f5e308c02df4ab5c539ad40ab5f85055decbfa102dd82f2"
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 1168 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1168-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1168** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1168.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-15** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-26** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-26** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-29** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-03-29** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2019-03-29** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-29** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-01** Received from the House.
- **2019-04-01** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-02** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2019-04-02** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-02** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-03** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-05** Notification that HB1168 is now Act 752 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e9e403a-77c6-4dbb-b15d-e0697aedc940`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).