republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2025/sb-601.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 CREATE A PATHWAY FOR A GRADUATE OF A FOREIGN MEDICAL SCHOOL TO BE LICENSED IN THIS STATE IF HE OR SHE IS OFFERED FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT AS A PHYSICIAN FROM A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER.	TO CREATE A PATHWAY FOR A GRADUATE OF A FOREIGN MEDICAL SCHOOL TO BE LICENSED IN THIS STATE IF HE OR SHE IS OFFERED FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT AS A PHYSICIAN FROM A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2025	SB 601	Arkansas SB 601 (2025)	bill		enacted	Hester L. Johnson	4	23	0	2025-04-01T20:08:04+00:00	2025-04-22T21:47:35+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/b32f0d98-ccba-420f-a82e-2a709e6334a5	https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt	0110656917c84686b42eb5bed169d21ec718f168a026400334cb93b936ffb512	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas SB 601 (2025) — TO CREATE A PATHWAY FOR A GRADUATE OF A FOREIGN MEDICAL SCHOOL TO BE LICENSED IN THIS STATE IF HE OR SHE IS OFFERED FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT AS A PHYSICIAN FROM A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER.

Version chain

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

1. Act 971 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. SB 601 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-01T20:08:04+00:00 Filed introduction
• 2025-04-01T22:43:21+00:00 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03T18:19:05+00:00 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07T20:20:12+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-07T20:20:20+00:00 Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
• 2025-04-07T21:37:52+00:00 RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
• 2025-04-08T01:17:58+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
• 2025-04-09T13:35:23+00:00 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-09T13:35:28+00:00 Amendment No. 1 & 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
• 2025-04-09T17:03:09+00:00 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2025-04-15T18:30:21+00:00 Returned by the Committee Do Pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-16T15:36:13+00:00 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T15:36:40+00:00 Returned to Senate as passed, as amended # 1 & 2
• 2025-04-16T17:21:47+00:00 Returned from the House as passed as amended # 1 & 2 .
• 2025-04-16T17:21:54+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-16T17:22:00+00:00 Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
• 2025-04-16T17:22:12+00:00 House Amendment No. 1 & 2 read first time, rule suspended, read second time and concurred in.
• 2025-04-16T17:22:21+00:00 Rules suspended.
• 2025-04-16T17:22:33+00:00 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-16T17:22:37+00:00 ORDERED ENROLLED
• 2025-04-16T19:21:05+00:00 Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
• 2025-04-16T19:21:09+00:00 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. executive-receipt
• 2025-04-22T21:47:35+00:00 Notification that SB601 is now Act 971 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b32f0d98-ccba-420f-a82e-2a709e6334a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).