republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/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 CLARIFY THAT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS APPLY TO ALL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL; AND TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK LAW TO INCLUDE OFFENSES PROSECUTED IN OTHER STATES OR BY FEDERAL COURTS.	TO CLARIFY THAT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS APPLY TO ALL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL; AND TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK LAW TO INCLUDE OFFENSES PROSECUTED IN OTHER STATES OR BY FEDERAL COURTS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	HB 1251	Arkansas HB 1251 (2023)	bill		enacted	J. Boyd L. Johnson	2	13	2	2023-01-25T20:10:29+00:00	2023-02-14T22:51:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/760bc8e7-b114-48e0-b776-895006a0803f	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	15c9e3ccbbfe9e20d4c673a366b9c519062a23469819cce5f358ac450db53546	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1251 (2023) — TO CLARIFY THAT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS APPLY TO ALL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL; AND TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK LAW TO INCLUDE OFFENSES PROSECUTED IN OTHER STATES OR BY FEDERAL COURTS.

Version chain

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

1. Act 51 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1251 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• J. Boyd — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)
• Irvin — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-25T20:10:29+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-25T22:32:11+00:00 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
• 2023-01-31T17:19:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-01T20:18:41+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-01T21:44:14+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2023-02-01T21:44:22+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-08T19:22:02+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-09T17:48:38+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-09T17:48:48+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2023-02-09T19:08:20+00:00 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2023-02-09T19:08:22+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2023-02-09T20:26:11+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2023-02-14T22:51:45+00:00 Notification that HB1251 is now Act 51 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/760bc8e7-b114-48e0-b776-895006a0803f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).