---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE DEADLINE BY WHICH A STUDENT WHO HAS A PARENT OR GUARDIAN WHO RESIDES ON A MILITARY BASE MAY APPLY FOR A TRANSFER UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT AND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE DEADLINE BY WHICH A STUDENT WHO HAS A PARENT OR GUARDIAN WHO RESIDES ON A MILITARY BASE MAY APPLY FOR A TRANSFER UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT AND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1175"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1175 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-02-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/314c6df8-1c1b-49cd-a4a0-a319118fa43f"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "c6e689d93b848f95d37e2d86416e6423281d40ec1a9d140b0a139c06e93fbbb3"
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 1175 (2019) — TO AMEND THE DEADLINE BY WHICH A STUDENT WHO HAS A PARENT OR GUARDIAN WHO RESIDES ON A MILITARY BASE MAY APPLY FOR A TRANSFER UNDER THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT AND THE ARKANSAS OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE ACT.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1175-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1175** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1175.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Evans — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-16** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** 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`
- **2019-01-29** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-01-29** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-29** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-01-31** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-01-31** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-31** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-05** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-07** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-02-14** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-02-14** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-02-14** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-02-18** Notification that HB1175 is now Act 171 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/314c6df8-1c1b-49cd-a4a0-a319118fa43f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).