---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING A VETERAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SEEKS TO OBTAIN A LICENSE TO CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN."
description: "CONCERNING A VETERAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SEEKS TO OBTAIN A LICENSE TO CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1748"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1748 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richmond"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-07"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c89009c-22bf-475a-852a-6d960a2f576b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "16f3215514e5b8a7b91ef7bff6fb594839787ff1461ea0cac6c6a1d992de95bd"
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 1748 (2019) — CONCERNING A VETERAN WHO VOLUNTARILY SOUGHT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT AND WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SEEKS TO OBTAIN A LICENSE TO CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN.

## 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=HB1748-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1748** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1748.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Richmond — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-07** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-07** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-18** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-18** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to CITY, COUNTY & LOCAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-01** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-01** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-02** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-05** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-04-05** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-08** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-11** Notification that HB1748 is now Act 917 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c89009c-22bf-475a-852a-6d960a2f576b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).