republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1277.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 LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS; AND TO REQUIRE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON CONTRACTORS IN DESIGNATED POSITIONS OR DESIGNATED FINANCIAL OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS.	TO AMEND LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS; AND TO REQUIRE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON CONTRACTORS IN DESIGNATED POSITIONS OR DESIGNATED FINANCIAL OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1277	Arkansas HB 1277 (2019)	bill		enacted	Hawks	2	18	3	2019-01-28	2019-03-06	openstates	ocd-bill/6c4c4317-46a3-4e06-a2f3-baf611597995	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	897da5c32a064127067c20cd47cbb0040c176696f81ea6416ca1903a17127c53	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1277 (2019) — TO AMEND LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS; AND TO REQUIRE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON CONTRACTORS IN DESIGNATED POSITIONS OR DESIGNATED FINANCIAL OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1277 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hawks — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-28 Filed introduction
• 2019-01-28 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2019-02-06 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-02-11 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Received from the House.
• 2019-02-11 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-27 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2019-02-27 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2019-02-27 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-02-28 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-28 Returned To the House as passed as amended.
• 2019-02-28 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-02-28 Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
• 2019-03-04 Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
• 2019-03-04 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-03-04 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-03-06 Notification that HB1277 is now Act 318 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6c4c4317-46a3-4e06-a2f3-baf611597995. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).