HB 1454 Arkansas House · 2025 Regular Session

TO AMEND THE LAWS CONCERNING CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS FOR EMPLOYEES OF SERVICE PROVIDERS; TO ALLOW THIRD-PARTY EMPLOYEE EVALUATION SERVICES TO PERFORM CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS; AND TO INCLUDE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS.

House Bill 1454, now Act 674, amends existing laws concerning criminal history record checks for service providers. This bill allows third-party employee evaluation services to perform these background checks. It also expands the scope of these checks to include independent contractors, in addition to employees. This means both employees and independent contractors working for service providers will be subject to these checks, which can now be conducted by external evaluation services.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Apr 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Signed into Law
Apr 2025
Introduced Feb 11, 2025 Signed Apr 16, 2025
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Act 674 HB 1454 · 1 edit
MINOR
This bill makes minor formatting and indentation adjustments to the definition of 'Employee' in the legislation. The substantive meaning of the law remains unchanged, as the text content is identical despite the visual reformatting.
TECHNICAL

Indentation and spacing were adjusted in the definition of 'Employee' to improve document formatting, but the actual legal text and meaning did not change.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
19
Key actions
8
Committee
3
Apr 16, 2025
Signed into law
Notification that HB1454 is now Act 674
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
lower
Apr 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
upper
Apr 9, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read the third time and passed.
upper
Apr 8, 2025
Upper · Passed
Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
upper
Apr 3, 2025
Committee
Re-referred to PUBLIC HEALTH, WELFARE AND LABOR COMMITTEE - SENATE
upper
Feb 26, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
lower
Feb 25, 2025
Lower · Passed
Returned by the Committee Do Pass
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Introduced
Filed
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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