---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION OF APPRAISERS; AND TO CREATE A REGISTRATION CLASS FOR A REGISTERED APPRENTICE APPRAISER."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION OF APPRAISERS; AND TO CREATE A REGISTRATION CLASS FOR A REGISTERED APPRENTICE APPRAISER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 394"
citation: "Arkansas SB 394 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f21a49f4-9c17-49e6-8d47-4eb3db621e41"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d80be7f0faa8a26478a40795db8fa02d11a464105988134dded70036c7c04173"
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 394 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION OF APPRAISERS; AND TO CREATE A REGISTRATION CLASS FOR A REGISTERED APPRENTICE APPRAISER.

## 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=SB394-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 394** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB394.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-21** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-06** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-03-06** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-07** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-03-07** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-03-07** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-14** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-14** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-03-14** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-03-18** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-03-18** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19** Notification that SB394 is now Act 514 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f21a49f4-9c17-49e6-8d47-4eb3db621e41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).