---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWING THE DAILY RECITATION OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE; AND TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND SPORTING EVENTS."
description: "TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWING THE DAILY RECITATION OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE; AND TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND SPORTING EVENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1832"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1832 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "M. Berry"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-23T21:37:55+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-27T19:58:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/541590c0-67c9-4eb5-bee6-1b62f5577b95"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "166aab81fe772d138b456785f913c0c8d0273a47dd9f187b4a0c6485597fee22"
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 1832 (2021) — TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OBSERVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWING THE DAILY RECITATION OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE; AND TO REQUIRE THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES AND SPORTING EVENTS.

## 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%2FHB1832-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1832** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1832.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)
- M. Berry — primary (person)
- B. Ballinger — cosponsor (person)
- B. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Beaty Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Christiansen — cosponsor (person)
- Cloud — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- D. Wallace — cosponsor (person)
- Dotson — cosponsor (person)
- Fortner — cosponsor (person)
- Haak — cosponsor (person)
- Hollowell — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Lundstrum — cosponsor (person)
- McClure — cosponsor (person)
- McGrew — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Slape — cosponsor (person)
- Speaks — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-23T21:37:55+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-23T22:20:26+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`
- **2021-04-06T13:30:44+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-06T13:30:47+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06T15:34:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-08T18:09:29+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12T19:56:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-12T22:11:26+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-12T22:11:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T18:24:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20T21:29:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-20T21:29:30+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:07:29+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-20T23:07:31+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-21T15:20:56+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-27T19:58:36+00:00** Notification that HB1832 is now Act 959 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/541590c0-67c9-4eb5-bee6-1b62f5577b95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).