---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TAX-DEFERRED TUITION SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT; TO ADOPT RECENT CHANGES CONTAINED IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TAX-DEFERRED TUITION SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT; TO ADOPT RECENT CHANGES CONTAINED IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1509"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1509 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown", "J. English"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-22T18:58:49+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-27T20:10:33+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6774c989-9284-44ea-98be-21d9dd1b099e"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "b73788047d7d70d2382bcdead185bc80a46b25fb6eb5b81ddaf952c78ea814da"
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 1509 (2021) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS TAX-DEFERRED TUITION SAVINGS PROGRAM ACT; TO ADOPT RECENT CHANGES CONTAINED IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE; AND TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM.

## 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%2FHB1509-H1.pdf)
2. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FHB1509-H2.pdf)
3. **HB 1509** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1509.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)
- J. English — primary (person)
- B. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Barker — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bledsoe — cosponsor (person)
- C. Fite — cosponsor (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Irvin — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- M. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- McKenzie — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22T18:58:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-02-22T22:06:58+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02T14:37:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-02T14:37:39+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-02T16:58:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-13T23:15:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14T19:55:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T20:51:43+00:00** Motion to expunge vote passed
- **2021-04-14T20:51:59+00:00** The vote by which HB1509 Passed was expunged.
- **2021-04-14T20:52:14+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on REVENUE & TAXATION- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-16T00:05:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T13:35:37+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-19T13:35:39+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-19T16:04:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-19T20:01:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T22:14:35+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:14:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to REVENUE & TAX - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21T18:31:19+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22T23:12:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22T23:12:44+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:51:36+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T00:51:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:06:48+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-27T20:10:33+00:00** Notification that HB1509 is now Act 966 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6774c989-9284-44ea-98be-21d9dd1b099e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).