---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ADOPT THE DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS."
description: "TO ADOPT THE DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1185"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1185 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Penzo", "L. Johnson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-21T22:25:48+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:11:27+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d709dafc-0f77-4a36-964b-eaf90441d096"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "77071f0cdad23c1402f16b584bff2db40571bc69e4bf1bc8f0d03afbe6a65583"
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 1185 (2025) — TO ADOPT THE DIETITIAN LICENSURE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 799** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=799.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1185-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1185-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1185-H3.pdf)
5. **HB 1185** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1185.pdf)

## Sponsors

- C. Penzo — primary (person)
- L. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21T22:25:48+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-22T22:37:33+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`
- **2025-02-13T14:31:43+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-13T14:31:44+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T16:58:02+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-26T14:36:12+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-26T14:36:15+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-26T17:00:44+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-27T14:43:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-27T14:43:20+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T17:57:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-04T18:43:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T21:02:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T23:18:36+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-05T23:18:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T18:43:18+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T17:05:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:05:29+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T19:09:46+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T19:09:48+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T16:45:53+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:11:27+00:00** Notification that HB1185 is now Act 799 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d709dafc-0f77-4a36-964b-eaf90441d096`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).