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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWING THE DAILY RECITATION OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE; AND TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND SPORTING EVENTS."
+description: "TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWING THE DAILY RECITATION OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE; AND TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND SPORTING EVENTS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1832"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1832 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "M. Berry"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-23T21:37:55+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-27T19:58:36+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/541590c0-67c9-4eb5-bee6-1b62f5577b95"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "166aab81fe772d138b456785f913c0c8d0273a47dd9f187b4a0c6485597fee22"
+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 1832 (2021) — TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWING THE DAILY RECITATION OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE; AND TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND SPORTING EVENTS.
+
+## 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%2FHB1832-H1.pdf)
+2. **HB 1832** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1832.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. English — primary (person)
+- M. Berry — primary (person)
+- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
+- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
+- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
+- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
+- Haak — cosponsor (person)
+- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
+- McClure — cosponsor (person)
+- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Slape — cosponsor (person)
+- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
+- Watson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-23T21:37:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-23T22:20:26+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`
+- **2021-04-06T13:30:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-06T13:30:47+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-06T15:34:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-08T18:09:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-12T19:56:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-12T22:11:26+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-12T22:11:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-15T18:24:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-20T21:29:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-20T21:29:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2021-04-20T23:07:29+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-20T23:07:31+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-21T15:20:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-27T19:58:36+00:00** Notification that HB1832 is now Act 959 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/541590c0-67c9-4eb5-bee6-1b62f5577b95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+