---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE RIGHT TO PLAY ACT; AND CONCERNING THE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES."
description: "TO CREATE THE RIGHT TO PLAY ACT; AND CONCERNING THE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1733"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1733 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irvin", "Wing"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-27T22:25:05+00:00"
last_action: "2023-04-12T14:58:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da550db4-7563-4b4c-b323-a68b18ff4235"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "6e801accf9634e2bc7dc9a24c29018104ac614c408d1f4c877fe553f22066bbc"
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 1733 (2023) — TO CREATE THE RIGHT TO PLAY ACT; AND CONCERNING THE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS IN INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 748** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=748.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FHB1733-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1733** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1733.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed. — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **76–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Irvin — primary (person)
- Wing — primary (person)
- A. Clark — cosponsor (person)
- M. McKee — cosponsor (person)
- McCollum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-27T22:25:05+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-03-27T23:06:10+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`
- **2023-03-30T18:29:03+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03T13:44:40+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2023-04-03T13:44:42+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-03T19:19:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2023-04-04T20:24:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05T03:57:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-04-05T18:03:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05T21:21:55+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06T19:46:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06T19:46:03+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:06:12+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-04-06T22:06:14+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-04-07T15:33:47+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-04-12T14:58:57+00:00** Notification that HB1733 is now Act 748 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da550db4-7563-4b4c-b323-a68b18ff4235`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).