---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE MINIMUM SCORE REQUIRED ON THE UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP CIVICS TEST."
description: "TO AMEND THE MINIMUM SCORE REQUIRED ON THE UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP CIVICS TEST."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1744"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1744 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cozart"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-16T13:58:40+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-15T18:12:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c2e569d-6201-4bc2-a13e-b44cb21ca2fa"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d43bc1ce862d3557fcd0e0348bb1c448d54dbd9a2c3a3698ce83d6d205f546b2"
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 1744 (2021) — TO AMEND THE MINIMUM SCORE REQUIRED ON THE UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP CIVICS TEST.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 1744** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1744.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cozart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16T13:58:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-16T21:46:19+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`
- **2021-03-30T18:11:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31T18:26:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31T21:33:55+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-03-31T21:34:02+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07T21:47:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-13T19:58:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13T19:58:17+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-13T21:15:25+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-13T21:15:27+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-14T13:41:34+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-15T18:12:08+00:00** Notification that HB1744 is now Act 730 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c2e569d-6201-4bc2-a13e-b44cb21ca2fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).