---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODIFY THE COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHED UNDER ACT 161 OF 2023; AND TO PROHIBIT A VETERINARY TECHNICIAN SPECIALIST FROM RECEIVING COMPENSATION FOR PERFORMING SPECIALIZED VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY."
description: "TO MODIFY THE COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHED UNDER ACT 161 OF 2023; AND TO PROHIBIT A VETERINARY TECHNICIAN SPECIALIST FROM RECEIVING COMPENSATION FOR PERFORMING SPECIALIZED VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1566"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1566 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill", "Vaught"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-07T14:42:25+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-04T15:13:23+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b281b73-7531-4b24-97f0-0b4e2b1019d3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6de36c8c31630764e67dcef26d5b7ceba2c9dcf017c5a72c132f6f107cae99b5"
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 1566 (2023) — TO MODIFY THE COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHED UNDER ACT 161 OF 2023; AND TO PROHIBIT A VETERINARY TECHNICIAN SPECIALIST FROM RECEIVING COMPENSATION FOR PERFORMING SPECIALIZED VETERINARY TECHNOLOGY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 452** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=452.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1566** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1566.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Vaught — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-07T14:42:25+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-07T22:36:22+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15T15:46:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16T18:57:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T21:20:28+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-03-16T21:20:36+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28T18:43:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29T21:20:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29T21:20:23+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-29T22:37:52+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-29T22:37:54+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-30T14:18:50+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-04T15:13:23+00:00** Notification that HB1566 is now Act 452 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b281b73-7531-4b24-97f0-0b4e2b1019d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).