---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORESTERS FOR THE FUTURE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ACT OF 2021."
description: "TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORESTERS FOR THE FUTURE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ACT OF 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1389"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1389 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bragg", "Gilmore"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-03T16:38:18+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-17T18:19:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27aee299-7111-448e-be83-7cc563fca4e0"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "bb2c9a067cd18b80b3d71859615c5ac4b5855b609d0f3b2598eee86fd64e11d5"
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 1389 (2021) — TO CREATE THE ARKANSAS FORESTERS FOR THE FUTURE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ACT OF 2021.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1389-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1389** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1389.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bragg — primary (person)
- Gilmore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03T16:38:18+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-03T22:37:41+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`
- **2021-02-23T14:22:47+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-02-23T14:22:57+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-23T16:30:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-02-25T19:06:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-01T19:27:21+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01T22:12:03+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-01T22:12:28+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15T21:59:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16T19:46:37+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16T19:46:48+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-03-16T20:41:40+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-03-16T20:41:43+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-03-16T21:23:54+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-03-17T18:19:15+00:00** Notification that HB1389 is now Act 399 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27aee299-7111-448e-be83-7cc563fca4e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).