---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO MODERNIZE PLUMBING PLAN REVIEW SUBMISSIONS AND RESPONSES; AND TO CLARIFY THAT LOCAL JURISDICTION REVIEW OF CERTAIN PLUMBING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS DOES NOT REQUIRE REVIEW BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH."
description: "TO MODERNIZE PLUMBING PLAN REVIEW SUBMISSIONS AND RESPONSES; AND TO CLARIFY THAT LOCAL JURISDICTION REVIEW OF CERTAIN PLUMBING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS DOES NOT REQUIRE REVIEW BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 525"
citation: "Arkansas SB 525 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-11"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b78c13b1-bf11-4d04-9228-4fb3b35b17b9"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5113320f03679054f26e8ce5f1aa2db72504879a6a8c927570c6022ef07c8aed"
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 SB 525 (2019) — TO MODERNIZE PLUMBING PLAN REVIEW SUBMISSIONS AND RESPONSES; AND TO CLARIFY THAT LOCAL JURISDICTION REVIEW OF CERTAIN PLUMBING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS DOES NOT REQUIRE REVIEW BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=SB525-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 525** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB525.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **78–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-11** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-01** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-01** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-02** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-02** 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`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-05** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-05** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-05** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-05** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-08** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB525 is now Act 889 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b78c13b1-bf11-4d04-9228-4fb3b35b17b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).