---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE KEEP KIDS FIRST ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTIONS FROM DISCRIMINATION FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROVIDERS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS."
description: "TO CREATE THE KEEP KIDS FIRST ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTIONS FROM DISCRIMINATION FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROVIDERS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1669"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1669 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Bentley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T20:51:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:26:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2ba7f1d-1b45-4fd0-aed1-7dbea2934e16"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "71669e2c28fe769f0e69f2e41d019e5628aa76453bb95c9792208930522b2b11"
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 1669 (2025) — TO CREATE THE KEEP KIDS FIRST ACT; AND TO PROVIDE FOR PROTECTIONS FROM DISCRIMINATION FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROVIDERS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 509** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=509.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1669-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1669** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1669.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Bentley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04T20:51:46+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T23:33:51+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T16:50:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13T19:55:50+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T22:42:30+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-13T22:42:39+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T18:44:04+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20T19:07:00+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-20T19:07:06+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-20T20:43:45+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-31T21:48:00+00:00** Read the third time and failed. `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31T21:49:04+00:00** Motion to Expunge the Vote by which HB1669 failed to pass. Motion Carried.
- **2025-04-03T18:55:46+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03T18:56:01+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-04-03T20:24:21+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-04-03T20:24:29+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on AGING, CHILDREN AND YOUTH, & LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07T16:27:07+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08T19:15:14+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-04-08T19:15:16+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T19:15:20+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T21:26:38+00:00** Notification that HB1669 is now Act 509 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2ba7f1d-1b45-4fd0-aed1-7dbea2934e16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).