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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "TO AMEND THE TELEMEDICINE ACT; TO AMEND THE DEFINITIONS OF \"PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP\" AND \"TELEMEDICINE\" WITHIN THE TELEMEDICINE ACT; AND TO ALLOW TELEHEALTH CERTIFICATION FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
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description: "TO AMEND THE TELEMEDICINE ACT; TO AMEND THE DEFINITIONS OF \"PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP\" AND \"TELEMEDICINE\" WITHIN THE TELEMEDICINE ACT; AND TO ALLOW TELEHEALTH CERTIFICATION FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
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legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
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session: "2021"
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identifier: "SB 703"
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citation: "Arkansas SB 703 (2021)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["G. Leding"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2021-04-21T14:25:11+00:00"
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last_action: "2021-05-03T21:53:05+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aca8d0cf-3f86-4d59-a4be-7a82f2d526d2"
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source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
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source_hash: "e765494f0923a20ab0f529857582e0fe64bfc26321e6afd95613fcf937ac3735"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
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---
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# Arkansas SB 703 (2021) — TO AMEND THE TELEMEDICINE ACT; TO AMEND THE DEFINITIONS OF "PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP" AND "TELEMEDICINE" WITHIN THE TELEMEDICINE ACT; AND TO ALLOW TELEHEALTH CERTIFICATION FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **SB 703** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/SB703.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **58–19** (pass) · lower
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- Read the third time and failed. — **13–13** (fail) · upper
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- Read the third time and passed. — **23–9** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- G. Leding — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-04-21T14:25:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
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- **2021-04-21T18:34:56+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-22T18:18:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-04-23T00:43:31+00:00** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
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- **2021-04-23T00:53:09+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which SB703 failed to pass. Motion passed.
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- **2021-04-23T00:53:10+00:00** The vote by which SB703 Passed was expunged.
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- **2021-04-23T01:28:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-04-23T01:28:32+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
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- **2021-04-23T01:37:01+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
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- **2021-04-23T01:43:02+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on HOUSE RULES `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-26T18:07:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
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- **2021-04-27T20:28:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-04-27T20:28:08+00:00** Returned To the Senate as passed.
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- **2021-04-27T22:19:34+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
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- **2021-04-27T22:19:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
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- **2021-04-27T22:19:39+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
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- **2021-04-27T22:19:42+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
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- **2021-05-03T21:53:05+00:00** Notification that SB703 is now Act 1112 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aca8d0cf-3f86-4d59-a4be-7a82f2d526d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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