---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES; AND TO AMEND ASPECTS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES WHO ARE ENROLLED IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL."
description: "CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES; AND TO AMEND ASPECTS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES WHO ARE ENROLLED IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 638"
citation: "Arkansas SB 638 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-25"
last_action: "2019-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12cc0623-cd12-487a-a919-ba8f7b1e2007"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e2461a55d37679d75279a759f4aeadd3c40a0e5d3e2c5746c727e795c8b30146"
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 SB 638 (2019) — CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES; AND TO AMEND ASPECTS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES WHO ARE ENROLLED IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

## 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=SB638-S1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **SB 638** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB638.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-25** Filed `introduction`
- **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 as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-02** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-02** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-04-03** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-04-03** 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`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-08** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Returned To the Senate as passed.
- **2019-04-08** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-04-08** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-04-09** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-04-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-17** Notification that SB638 is now Act 939 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12cc0623-cd12-487a-a919-ba8f7b1e2007`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).