republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1850.md

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Bill	TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW IMPACTING INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; AND TO AMEND DEFINITIONS OF "EMPLOYEE", "EMPLOYMENT", AND "EMPLOYMENT STATUS" WITHIN TITLE 11.	TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW IMPACTING INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; AND TO AMEND DEFINITIONS OF "EMPLOYEE", "EMPLOYMENT", AND "EMPLOYMENT STATUS" WITHIN TITLE 11.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1850	Arkansas HB 1850 (2019)	bill		enacted	McCollum	1	16	3	2019-03-15	2019-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/e153bf3d-e1bd-4348-b7f0-c4ae32ef970e	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	c7b3ab15c70715ae8c762405ab05f96d2eebc7e01b3cf4c27d94fd4f0ac60eb6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1850 (2019) — TO ESTABLISH THE EMPOWER INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS ACT OF 2019; TO AMEND PORTIONS OF THE LAW IMPACTING INITIATED ACT 4 OF 1948; AND TO AMEND DEFINITIONS OF "EMPLOYEE", "EMPLOYMENT", AND "EMPLOYMENT STATUS" WITHIN TITLE 11.

Version chain

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

1. HB 1850 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 24–4 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and failed. — 23–4 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 82–9 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCollum — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-15 Filed introduction
• 2019-03-18 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
• 2019-03-26 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-28 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-01 Received from the House.
• 2019-04-01 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-09 Read the third time and failed. reading-3
• 2019-04-09 Motion to Expunge the Vote
• 2019-04-09 The vote by which HB1850 Failed to Pass was expunged.
• 2019-04-09 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-09 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2019-04-09 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-04-09 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-04-10 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-04-17 Notification that HB1850 is now Act 1055 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e153bf3d-e1bd-4348-b7f0-c4ae32ef970e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).