republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1251.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY"; AND TO MODERNIZE THE PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY.	TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY"; AND TO MODERNIZE THE PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1251	Arkansas HB 1251 (2019)	bill		enacted	Eubanks	2	16	2	2019-01-24	2019-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/f720c5f5-31d2-4af5-9b3f-929434e00666	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	41dcbaeecc7d9062f933c8cc2cfb236bfbade9905b56f9bd9650a9a7c4c732ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1251 (2019) — TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY"; AND TO MODERNIZE THE PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1251 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 25–8 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 70–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eubanks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-24 Filed introduction
• 2019-01-24 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
• 2019-03-04 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2019-03-04 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2019-03-04 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-03-05 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-06 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-06 Received from the House.
• 2019-03-06 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-20 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-03-20 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2019-03-20 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-03-20 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-03-21 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-03-27 Notification that HB1251 is now Act 579 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f720c5f5-31d2-4af5-9b3f-929434e00666. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).