---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE HEALTHY ACTIVE ARKANSAS SCHOOLS ACT."
description: "TO CREATE THE HEALTHY ACTIVE ARKANSAS SCHOOLS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1848"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1848 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bentley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-31T17:40:20+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-30T20:31:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76e5cf17-b453-400a-8807-80563d32e3cd"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "8e5c335790eca42beb8398ef812cb1d0f46bf7f671bad80fa1d632fcd3edfeb6"
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 1848 (2021) — TO CREATE THE HEALTHY ACTIVE ARKANSAS SCHOOLS 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%2FHB1848-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1848** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1848.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **90–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bentley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-31T17:40:20+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-03-31T22:32:55+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`
- **2021-04-12T13:37:20+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-12T13:37:23+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12T13:38:06+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-12T13:38:09+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12T16:07:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-15T18:26:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-19T18:56:57+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19T22:48:08+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-19T22:48:18+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:35:27+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-27T16:17:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-27T16:17:36+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2021-04-27T16:37:16+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-27T16:37:18+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-28T16:26:23+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-30T20:31:02+00:00** Notification that HB1848 is now Act 1074 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76e5cf17-b453-400a-8807-80563d32e3cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).