---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHT OF A JUVENILE TO REMAIN IN FOSTER CARE AFTER REACHING THE AGE OF MAJORITY."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHT OF A JUVENILE TO REMAIN IN FOSTER CARE AFTER REACHING THE AGE OF MAJORITY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1736"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1736 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Furman", "K. Hammer"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-15T20:18:34+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-20T18:10:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d705ab8f-de0e-493a-8c62-e8d12258d371"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "16aec55c33c6c0d0381dcab49253805528858adcf023d597e34dc0d0446b15b0"
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 1736 (2021) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE RIGHT OF A JUVENILE TO REMAIN IN FOSTER CARE AFTER REACHING THE AGE OF MAJORITY.

## 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%2FHB1736-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1736** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1736.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Furman — primary (person)
- K. Hammer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-15T20:18:34+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-15T22:03:40+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, LEGISLATIVE & MILITARY AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29T22:27:06+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31T13:34:36+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-31T13:34:40+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-31T15:03:06+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-07T18:20:23+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07T22:12:40+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-07T22:12:55+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14T18:31:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-15T20:51:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15T20:52:16+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:33:51+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-15T22:33:53+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-16T13:40:03+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-20T18:10:37+00:00** Notification that HB1736 is now Act 791 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d705ab8f-de0e-493a-8c62-e8d12258d371`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).