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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY."
+description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 477"
+citation: "Arkansas SB 477 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. English"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-03-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9f196b8-b56f-4ebb-86a0-1e3c8ab4ee2d"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "880fe8f239bc4c9c454109fa2a7d7264010758afec32321ff2beaa1f72328506"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
+---
+
+# Arkansas SB 477 (2019) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **SB 477** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB477.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **88–1** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. English — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-03-04** Filed `introduction`
+- **2019-03-04** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-14** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
+- **2019-03-14** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
+- **2019-03-14** 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`
+- **2019-03-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-27** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-03-27** Returned To the Senate as passed.
+- **2019-03-27** Returned from the House as passed.
+- **2019-03-27** ORDERED ENROLLED
+- **2019-03-28** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
+- **2019-03-28** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-04-02** Notification that SB477 is now Act 631 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9f196b8-b56f-4ebb-86a0-1e3c8ab4ee2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+