---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING USE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PRIVATE RESIDENT AND CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING USE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PRIVATE RESIDENT AND CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1509"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1509 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Davis"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7e404b-b05b-420b-b73a-666bbeded7cd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "88db0e06765a391d08264e2bd4751b7ef9eba0d190f58538a8ddcc08b58d9b26"
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 1509 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING USE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDS; TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING PRIVATE RESIDENT AND CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS; AND TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ACADEMIC CHALLENGE SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

## 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=HB1509-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1509** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1509.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **87–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-19** 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`
- **2019-03-13** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-13** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-13** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-20** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-20** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-25** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-25** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-25** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-02** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-02** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-03** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-05** Notification that HB1509 is now Act 755 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c7e404b-b05b-420b-b73a-666bbeded7cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).