republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2023/sb-79.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 ALLOW FULL INDEPENDENT PRACTICE AUTHORITY FOR CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS; AND TO ALLOW EXPERIENCE IN ANOTHER STATE TO QUALIFY.	TO ALLOW FULL INDEPENDENT PRACTICE AUTHORITY FOR CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS; AND TO ALLOW EXPERIENCE IN ANOTHER STATE TO QUALIFY.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2023	SB 79	Arkansas SB 79 (2023)	bill		enacted	K. Hammer L. Johnson	5	32	3	2023-01-19T16:16:45+00:00	2023-04-12T14:10:18+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1d4265ff-60d1-4a78-93b4-4845db1cfa49	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	4c16be0230515210fb7bb47e678841d9d67ce2d6ac9cf37af88697d7bf7240a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 79 (2023) — TO ALLOW FULL INDEPENDENT PRACTICE AUTHORITY FOR CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS; AND TO ALLOW EXPERIENCE IN ANOTHER STATE TO QUALIFY.

Version chain

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

1. Act 872 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. SB 79 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed. — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• K. Hammer — primary (person)
• L. Johnson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19T16:16:45+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2023-01-19T16:28:40+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-06T19:25:01+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-07T19:29:09+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-07T19:29:21+00:00 Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
• 2023-03-07T21:43:08+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-08T19:53:10+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-08T19:53:45+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2023-03-08T20:58:05+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2023-03-08T22:37:23+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
• 2023-03-09T18:22:16+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2023-03-13T13:32:27+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-03-13T13:32:29+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-03-13T15:34:57+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-03-16T19:36:51+00:00 Re-referred to the Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE- HOUSE referral-committee
• 2023-03-31T00:55:17+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 committee-passage
• 2023-04-03T13:46:54+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2023-04-03T13:46:56+00:00 Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-04-03T19:20:48+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2023-04-05T19:29:04+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-05T19:29:16+00:00 Returned To Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
• 2023-04-06T00:26:24+00:00 Returned From the House as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
• 2023-04-06T00:26:31+00:00 Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE referral-committee
• 2023-04-06T16:10:17+00:00 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass concur in House Amendment No. 1 & 2 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-06T22:11:40+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2023-04-06T22:11:52+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 & 2 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2023-04-06T22:11:57+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2023-04-06T22:12:08+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-06T22:12:13+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2023-04-07T19:02:23+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2023-04-07T19:02:25+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2023-04-12T14:10:18+00:00 Notification that SB79 is now Act 872 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d4265ff-60d1-4a78-93b4-4845db1cfa49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).