---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE INTERSTATE MASSAGE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE INTERSTATE MASSAGE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1217"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1217 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "Nazarenko"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-24T13:55:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-12T22:07:59+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac6a38c7-0137-4d2c-a4c6-510282eb358d"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "3b98dbc8a1f99fb9585eaa05aa55a527f62d45517fc81a716102e66b8203a053"
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 1217 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE INTERSTATE MASSAGE COMPACT IN ARKANSAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 267** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=267.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1217-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1217-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1217** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1217.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- Nazarenko — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24T13:55:21+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-27T23:42:51+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`
- **2025-02-13T14:29:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-13T14:29:38+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-13T16:55:49+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-24T14:37:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-24T14:37:21+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-24T16:51:47+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-25T20:23:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:35:11+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T23:28:56+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-26T23:30:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T19:43:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T21:54:36+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T21:54:47+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-05T22:33:19+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-05T22:33:21+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-06T14:48:01+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-12T22:07:59+00:00** Notification that HB1217 is now Act 267 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac6a38c7-0137-4d2c-a4c6-510282eb358d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).