---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ESTABLISH THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSOR AND TEACHER ACT."
description: "TO ESTABLISH THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSOR AND TEACHER ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1678"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1678 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["F. Allen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-09T19:20:46+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-12T18:19:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2edbfb4-8d4e-4cf4-9e70-0b89ee88e996"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8e0b5c61da2a5e914de65e0818ae96ee5e5f7720cf7088159dd30b468009fc23"
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 1678 (2021) — TO ESTABLISH THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSOR AND TEACHER ACT.

## 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%2FHB1678-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1678** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1678.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **85–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- F. Allen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-09T19:20:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-09T22:42:51+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`
- **2021-03-17T13:33:41+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-17T13:33:43+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-17T18:05:52+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-03-18T18:09:26+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22T18:29:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-22T22:19:10+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-22T22:19:20+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05T22:59:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07T20:15:56+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T20:16:15+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-07T22:00:43+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-07T22:00:44+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-08T14:43:16+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-12T18:19:04+00:00** Notification that HB1678 is now Act 657 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2edbfb4-8d4e-4cf4-9e70-0b89ee88e996`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).