---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW AN AUTHORIZER TO TRANSFER AND ASSIGN A PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL'S CHARTER UNDER THE ARKANSAS QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT OF 2013."
description: "TO ALLOW AN AUTHORIZER TO TRANSFER AND ASSIGN A PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL'S CHARTER UNDER THE ARKANSAS QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT OF 2013."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1730"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1730 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Hodges"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5f1f7a1-5de6-471f-b140-dfd527d31c5e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "f51bbef072ae3c62961ff64e87341007dff47991f69dbaf8fb8b93077e71a177"
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 1730 (2019) — TO ALLOW AN AUTHORIZER TO TRANSFER AND ASSIGN A PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL'S CHARTER UNDER THE ARKANSAS QUALITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT OF 2013.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1730** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1730.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **79–8** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- G. Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-07** 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`
- **2019-03-19** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **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 HB1730 is now Act 761 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5f1f7a1-5de6-471f-b140-dfd527d31c5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).