---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE A NETWORK OF CERTIFIED ACADEMIC LANGUAGE THERAPISTS TO PROVIDE A SPECIALIZED DYSLEXIA INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA OR RELATED READING AND WRITTEN-LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES."
description: "TO CREATE A NETWORK OF CERTIFIED ACADEMIC LANGUAGE THERAPISTS TO PROVIDE A SPECIALIZED DYSLEXIA INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA OR RELATED READING AND WRITTEN-LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1891"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1891 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dotson", "Elliott"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-04-08T17:55:26+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-29T18:49:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4561a3e5-f5c6-4aff-940c-c2d03ba10be2"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e99eeb955ddf6bc7d9f756d70a8bca7e242c896f813b5a6234f4427dc5a42cf6"
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 1891 (2021) — TO CREATE A NETWORK OF CERTIFIED ACADEMIC LANGUAGE THERAPISTS TO PROVIDE A SPECIALIZED DYSLEXIA INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA OR RELATED READING AND WRITTEN-LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES.

## 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%2FHB1891-H1.pdf)
2. **HB 1891** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2021R/Public/Searchable/HB1891.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dotson — primary (person)
- Elliott — primary (person)
- Bentley — cosponsor (person)
- Bragg — cosponsor (person)
- Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- D. Whitaker — cosponsor (person)
- Ennett — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- F. Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- M. Hodges — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- S. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Vaught — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-08T17:55:26+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2021-04-08T23:16:33+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`
- **2021-04-12T13:39:11+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2021-04-12T13:39:13+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12T16:07:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2021-04-13T18:04:30+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-14T19:05:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14T22:29:41+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2021-04-14T22:29:52+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T02:36:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-23T02:30:42+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-23T02:30:45+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2021-04-23T03:00:06+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2021-04-23T03:00:11+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2021-04-23T18:03:51+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2021-04-29T18:49:41+00:00** Notification that HB1891 is now Act 1016 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4561a3e5-f5c6-4aff-940c-c2d03ba10be2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).