---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AUTHORIZE INDIVIDUALS WITH VIOLENCE OFFENSES TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AS PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS OR SIMILAR POSITIONS REQUIRING A HISTORY OF RECEIVING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES."
description: "TO AUTHORIZE INDIVIDUALS WITH VIOLENCE OFFENSES TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AS PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS OR SIMILAR POSITIONS REQUIRING A HISTORY OF RECEIVING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1460"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1460 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Tosh"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-20T19:15:19+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-06T19:37:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b5109fc-c7b6-4b6b-b98f-a1be66485633"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c9a866f642ba920c190d721d8d1ee8b26422f2b39c6062c4022c1b18d9495647"
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 1460 (2023) — TO AUTHORIZE INDIVIDUALS WITH VIOLENCE OFFENSES TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AS PEER SUPPORT SPECIALISTS OR SIMILAR POSITIONS REQUIRING A HISTORY OF RECEIVING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 200** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=200.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1460** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1460.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Tosh — primary (person)
- Pilkington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-20T19:15:19+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-20T23:24:14+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`
- **2023-02-23T17:24:34+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-27T20:11:12+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-27T21:52:50+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-02-27T21:52:58+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01T19:33:28+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-02T19:28:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-02T19:28:18+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-02T20:25:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-02T20:25:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-02T21:07:02+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-06T19:37:51+00:00** Notification that HB1460 is now Act 200 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b5109fc-c7b6-4b6b-b98f-a1be66485633`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).