republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/hb-1256.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 REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN COUNSELING TO ISSUE A PROVISIONAL LICENSE FOR A LICENSED ASSOCIATE COUNSELOR AND A LICENSED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST.	TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN COUNSELING TO ISSUE A PROVISIONAL LICENSE FOR A LICENSED ASSOCIATE COUNSELOR AND A LICENSED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	HB 1256	Arkansas HB 1256 (2025)	bill		enacted	Irvin Wooldridge	3	16	0	2025-01-27T20:50:11+00:00	2025-03-04T22:53:26+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7ebca9c3-53e1-49ff-ba3e-f68db230026d	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	72f6942c31a56d6800f53e60a1ae3ec0e6089172e528a9979c0a22e58c3cb2bb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1256 (2025) — TO REQUIRE THE ARKANSAS BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN COUNSELING TO ISSUE A PROVISIONAL LICENSE FOR A LICENSED ASSOCIATE COUNSELOR AND A LICENSED ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST.

Version chain

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

1. Act 231 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB 1256 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Irvin — primary (person)
• Wooldridge — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-27T20:50:11+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-01-27T23:53:27+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
• 2025-02-17T14:35:17+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-02-17T14:35:19+00:00 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2025-02-17T15:27:40+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-02-18T20:44:40+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-02-19T19:57:54+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-19T22:42:25+00:00 Received from the House.
• 2025-02-19T22:43:08+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-26T23:25:32+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-27T20:11:14+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-27T20:11:21+00:00 Returned to the House as passed.
• 2025-02-27T20:43:04+00:00 Returned from the Senate as passed.
• 2025-02-27T20:43:07+00:00 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2025-02-27T20:43:09+00:00 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2025-03-04T22:53:26+00:00 Notification that HB1256 is now Act 231 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ebca9c3-53e1-49ff-ba3e-f68db230026d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).