---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ADULT DIPLOMA PROGRAM ACT."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ADULT DIPLOMA PROGRAM ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1571"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1571 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Ray"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-25T14:32:52+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:25:48+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a66f3a32-c2c8-4102-be0f-f60a8da88d79"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "762fcccfa6166e434c6c767259423416a883e32b9d1392f2f356004b5a89f8cd"
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 1571 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS ADULT DIPLOMA PROGRAM ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 502** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=502.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1571** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1571.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Ray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T14:32:52+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-25T23:03:27+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`
- **2025-03-18T18:38:50+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:00:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T00:19:16+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-01T00:19:25+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:19:41+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T22:35:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T22:35:52+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:25:07+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:25:12+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T15:23:27+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T21:25:48+00:00** Notification that HB1571 is now Act 502 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a66f3a32-c2c8-4102-be0f-f60a8da88d79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).