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+type: "Bill"
+title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHER LICENSURE."
+description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHER LICENSURE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
+legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1609"
+citation: "Arkansas HB 1609 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Evans"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-03-13T18:40:01+00:00"
+last_action: "2023-04-12T14:53:33+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a1718b2-3aaa-438e-ab87-704a83aebff8"
+source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
+source_hash: "60bc80a54f5b0c1007f7b7152171e3e3f7f4d6444be60e152a5e82ebcc6dc32f"
+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 1609 (2023) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE AS THEY RELATE TO TEACHER LICENSURE.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Act 732** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=732.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
+2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1609-H1.pdf)
+3. **HB 1609** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1609.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Davis — primary (person)
+- Evans — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-03-13T18:40:01+00:00** Filed `introduction`
+- **2023-03-13T23:00:00+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`
+- **2023-03-31T04:01:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-03T13:54:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
+- **2023-04-03T13:54:46+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
+- **2023-04-03T19:21:28+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
+- **2023-04-04T21:11:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-05T03:57:01+00:00** Received from the House.
+- **2023-04-05T18:07:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-06T16:01:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-06T22:41:15+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-06T22:41:20+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T23:45:02+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
+- **2023-04-06T23:45:08+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
+- **2023-04-07T15:30:34+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
+- **2023-04-12T14:53:33+00:00** Notification that HB1609 is now Act 732 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a1718b2-3aaa-438e-ab87-704a83aebff8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).
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