---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE EARNED WAGE ACCESS SERVICES ACT."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE EARNED WAGE ACCESS SERVICES ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1517"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1517 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore", "Ray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-18T17:16:17+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-20T15:44:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ce73e39-6e8c-4009-b3f6-1c4d26b6286d"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e950a1b15c4721ace2371d3b964e5102ef5ee031e3b0be05e4ecb1b62c68b1b8"
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 1517 (2025) — TO ESTABLISH THE EARNED WAGE ACCESS SERVICES ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 347** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=347.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1517-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1517-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1517** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1517.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Ray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18T17:16:17+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-18T22:51:50+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on INSURANCE & COMMERCE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T14:34:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-04T14:34:37+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-04T16:57:13+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-05T22:01:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T14:31:28+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-06T14:31:30+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T19:57:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-10T18:58:32+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-10T22:45:01+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-10T22:45:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13T18:43:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17T20:39:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:39:09+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-17T22:43:53+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-17T22:43:56+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-18T16:37:15+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-20T15:44:30+00:00** Notification that HB1517 is now Act 347 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ce73e39-6e8c-4009-b3f6-1c4d26b6286d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).