---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1685"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1685 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cozart"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cc8cec8-99b4-401f-8a8d-a8f140f2fbb7"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a07c73dd2774a60f608c7d5bdd768eb83d1db2d1107653af06d957811dbfd1d8"
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 1685 (2019) — TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING AMOUNTS; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## 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=HB1685-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1685** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1685.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cozart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** 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`
- **2019-03-07** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11** Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-18** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-03-19** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-19** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-27** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-04-01** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-04-01** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-01** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-02** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-03** Notification that HB1685 is now Act 667 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cc8cec8-99b4-401f-8a8d-a8f140f2fbb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).