republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-212.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 REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR NOTARIZATION FOR REQUESTS FOR CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR THE LICENSING OF CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR NOTARIZATION FOR REQUESTS FOR CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR THE LICENSING OF CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 212	Arkansas SB 212 (2023)	bill		enacted	Irvin L. Johnson	2	17	2	2023-02-07T17:33:23+00:00	2023-03-14T18:16:32+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/f9ff696b-c6f9-4cc4-b09a-f0266bafb778	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	58d8424f5975a0643adeab12235274beef2e1a3146820e863a170da510a07e00	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 212 (2023) — TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT FOR NOTARIZATION FOR REQUESTS FOR CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR THE LICENSING OF CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 186 (committee substitute) — source
2. SB 212 (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

• Irvin — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-07T17:33:23+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-02-07T19:15:58+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-02-15T19:24:45+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-16T17:36:03+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-16T17:36:08+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-16T17:36:15+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-02-16T19:19:13+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-02-16T22:38:17+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
• 2023-02-21T17:59:41+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-27T20:20:32+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-27T20:20:34+00:00 EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
• 2023-02-27T20:20:42+00:00 Returned To the Senate as passed.
• 2023-02-27T21:25:53+00:00 Returned from the House as passed.
• 2023-02-27T21:25:58+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-02-27T21:40:05+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-02-27T21:40:09+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-03-14T18:16:32+00:00 Notification that SB212 is now Act 186 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9ff696b-c6f9-4cc4-b09a-f0266bafb778. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).