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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A TEACHING LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO HAS PLED GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE OR HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD."
+description: "TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A TEACHING LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO HAS PLED GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE OR HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1837"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1837 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Pilkington"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-29T18:10:49+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-04-28T19:41:34+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b49f832-5d79-4d2e-9c51-a5612a71c621"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "f9e78e051c3964a7143dc47f6e30769643509824579e7783e96cbe728a12183a"
+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 1837 (2021) — TO PROHIBIT THE ISSUANCE OR RENEWAL OF A TEACHING LICENSE TO A PERSON WHO HAS PLED GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE OR HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUALLY GROOMING A CHILD.
+
+## 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%2FHB1837-H1.pdf)
+2. **HB 1837** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1837.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Davis — primary (person)
+- Pilkington — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-29T18:10:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2021-03-29T23:06:29+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`
+- **2021-04-15T18:25:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-19T13:33:01+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2021-04-19T13:33:04+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2021-04-19T16:03:14+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2021-04-19T19:44:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-19T22:47:41+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2021-04-19T22:47:50+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-22T02:34:37+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-23T02:30:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-23T02:30:45+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
+- **2021-04-23T02:54:27+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2021-04-23T02:54:33+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2021-04-23T18:05:09+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2021-04-28T19:41:34+00:00** Notification that HB1837 is now Act 985 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b49f832-5d79-4d2e-9c51-a5612a71c621`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
+