republic-os/legislation/us/states/ar/2019/hb-1700.md

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Bill	TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INFORM AN EDUCATIONAL ENTITY TO WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL IS APPLYING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND CHECKS.	TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INFORM AN EDUCATIONAL ENTITY TO WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL IS APPLYING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND CHECKS.	us/states/ar	Arkansas Legislature	2019	HB 1700	Arkansas HB 1700 (2019)	bill		enacted	Wooten	2	16	2	2019-03-05	2019-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/8b69cf94-f0e5-4744-9ff6-8f74209fddc4	ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt	5275d1a2ce53d76f6ea794a9f30773bf66254748d4096b3a7938bdd659988d13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ar

Arkansas HB 1700 (2019) — TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INFORM AN EDUCATIONAL ENTITY TO WHICH AN INDIVIDUAL IS APPLYING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL IS ELIGIBLE FOR EMPLOYMENT BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BACKGROUND CHECKS.

Version chain

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

1. Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. HB 1700 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read the third time and passed. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wooten — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-03-05 Filed introduction
• 2019-03-05 Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 committee-passage
• 2019-03-29 Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
• 2019-03-29 Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2019-03-29 REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
• 2019-04-02 Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-02 Received from the House.
• 2019-04-02 Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE reading-1, referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-09 Read the third time and passed. passage, reading-3
• 2019-04-09 Returned to the House as Passed.
• 2019-04-09 Returned From the Senate as passed.
• 2019-04-09 TO BE ENROLLED
• 2019-04-10 Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
• 2019-04-17 Notification that HB1700 is now Act 1040 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b69cf94-f0e5-4744-9ff6-8f74209fddc4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).