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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS IN THE TEACHING MATERIALS REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL."
+description: "TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS IN THE TEACHING MATERIALS REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1029"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1029 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["F. Allen", "L. Chesterfield"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-12-17T17:05:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-03-04T14:54:13+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a5b68aa-0616-4245-9edd-fe93c4ec45a4"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "a0e4db3f77e0e4e44ad8eef9d20966f7ff9ad7db59142c754fc8978d1be3a1bf"
+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 HB 1029 (2021) — TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ARKANSAS CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS IN THE TEACHING MATERIALS REGARDING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1029-H1.pdf)
+2. **HB 1029** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1029.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- F. Allen — primary (person)
+- L. Chesterfield — primary (person)
+- Cozart — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Fielding — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
+- McCullough — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicks — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-17T17:05:00+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-11T20:16:19+00:00** 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`
+- **2021-02-04T17:48:31+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 4 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-08T14:36:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-02-08T14:36:48+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-02-08T16:11:17+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-02-09T19:15:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-09T21:29:58+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-02-09T21:30:16+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-24T23:50:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-01T20:55:01+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-01T20:55:13+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-03-01T22:51:34+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-03-01T22:51:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-03-02T17:00:11+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-03-04T14:54:13+00:00** Notification that HB1029 is now Act 259 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a5b68aa-0616-4245-9edd-fe93c4ec45a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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