---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE ACT; AND TO BROADEN THE ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE ACT TO APPLY TO NON-NURSES REGULATED BY THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING."
description: "TO AMEND THE ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE ACT; AND TO BROADEN THE ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE ACT TO APPLY TO NON-NURSES REGULATED BY THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 279"
citation: "Arkansas SB 279 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "Wooldridge"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-16T16:22:26+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-14T18:22:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74c96ac1-27b1-41b7-bb40-f2245b6616dc"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "522284418e9945bd1372e7c9677963d03a9db68eff4c9f06ed453d8de8accc6d"
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 279 (2023) — TO AMEND THE ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE ACT; AND TO BROADEN THE ALTERNATIVE TO DISCIPLINE ACT TO APPLY TO NON-NURSES REGULATED BY THE ARKANSAS STATE BOARD OF NURSING.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 234** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=234.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **SB 279** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/SB279.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- Wooldridge — primary (person)
- J. Boyd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16T16:22:26+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-16T17:30:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T19:30:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23T18:18:58+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-23T18:19:04+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2023-02-23T20:20:20+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2023-02-23T21:57:31+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`
- **2023-02-28T17:34:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01T20:13:14+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-01T20:13:20+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-01T21:08:48+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2023-03-01T21:08:58+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2023-03-01T21:26:39+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2023-03-01T21:26:46+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-14T18:22:55+00:00** Notification that SB279 is now Act 234 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74c96ac1-27b1-41b7-bb40-f2245b6616dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).