---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE CANDIDATE FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR POSITIONS ON SCHOOL BOARDS AND LOCAL BOARDS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES."
description: "TO AMEND THE CANDIDATE FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR POSITIONS ON SCHOOL BOARDS AND LOCAL BOARDS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1175"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1175 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Ballinger", "Boyd"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-13T19:13:25+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-15T18:00:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/537c43eb-7188-465a-982c-b6ad00253e5e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b8f92f81f5d259399991c7b2222fbf37a45a745d77241cc42d40f5c4c9f46d48"
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 (2021) — TO AMEND THE CANDIDATE FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR POSITIONS ON SCHOOL BOARDS AND LOCAL BOARDS OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1175** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1175.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Ballinger — primary (person)
- Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13T19:13:25+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13T22:02:37+00:00** 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`
- **2021-02-04T17:48:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08T19:26:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-08T21:25:36+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-02-08T21:26:07+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08T23:22:25+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09T20:38:45+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-09T20:38:58+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-09T21:29:33+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-09T21:29:36+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-10T14:17:37+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-15T18:00:35+00:00** Notification that HB1175 is now Act 349 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/537c43eb-7188-465a-982c-b6ad00253e5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).