---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING THE TRANSFER OF A FAMILY IN NEED OF SERVICES CASE."
description: "CONCERNING THE TRANSFER OF A FAMILY IN NEED OF SERVICES CASE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1809"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1809 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Womack"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-18T20:06:37+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-21T18:04:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d569ad2-daf4-4bb6-be38-27140a884a5b"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5bacfd7a7a193c3452f72b03cbf3ac74816e7c7241f8d409511623d67e984c3d"
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 1809 (2021) — CONCERNING THE TRANSFER OF A FAMILY IN NEED OF SERVICES CASE.

## 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%2FHB1809-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1809** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1809.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Womack — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-18T20:06:37+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-18T22:23:18+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`
- **2021-03-29T22:27:59+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-31T13:34:59+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-03-31T13:35:01+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-31T15:03:16+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-01T18:35:02+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-01T21:20:08+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-01T21:20:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:17:51+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-19T20:00:59+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T20:01:14+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-19T22:09:56+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-19T22:09:57+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-20T14:07:46+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-21T18:04:35+00:00** Notification that HB1809 is now Act 816 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2d569ad2-daf4-4bb6-be38-27140a884a5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).