republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2017s1/sb-3.md

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Bill	TO AMEND ARKANSAS WORKS TO REDUCE INCOME ELIGIBILITY LIMITS AND IMPOSE WORK REQUIREMENTS; TO ALLOW THE FLEXIBILITY TO SELECT WHETHER TO BECOME AN "ASSESSMENT STATE" OR A "DETERMINATION STATE"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO AMEND ARKANSAS WORKS TO REDUCE INCOME ELIGIBILITY LIMITS AND IMPOSE WORK REQUIREMENTS; TO ALLOW THE FLEXIBILITY TO SELECT WHETHER TO BECOME AN "ASSESSMENT STATE" OR A "DETERMINATION STATE"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2017S1	SB 3	Arkansas SB 3 (2017S1)	bill		enacted	J. Dismang	1	19	3	2017-05-01	2017-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/531a03f2-d69e-4851-808f-20758fb10d17	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/dfadooas/LegislativeMeasures.txt	bfb3ddb091b5f5e8480fe529dcb3ddedce47c46f650ec5162e31c81ccc1b2e37	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 3 (2017S1) — TO AMEND ARKANSAS WORKS TO REDUCE INCOME ELIGIBILITY LIMITS AND IMPOSE WORK REQUIREMENTS; TO ALLOW THE FLEXIBILITY TO SELECT WHETHER TO BECOME AN "ASSESSMENT STATE" OR A "DETERMINATION STATE"; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. SB 3 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read the third time and passed. — 23–9 (pass) · legislature
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 69–21 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• J. Dismang — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-05-01 Filed introduction
• 2017-05-01 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-02 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2017-05-02 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-02 Emergency Clause failed of adoption.
• 2017-05-02 The vote by which the Emergency Clause failed was expunged.
• 2017-05-02 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2017-05-02 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2017-05-02 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
• 2017-05-02 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2017-05-03 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-03 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2017-05-03 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2017-05-03 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2017-05-03 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2017-05-03 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2017-05-03 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2017-05-04 Notification that SB3 is now Act 6 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/531a03f2-d69e-4851-808f-20758fb10d17. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).