---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO CREATE A MORE EFFICIENT SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION IN ARKANSAS."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO CREATE A MORE EFFICIENT SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION IN ARKANSAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1672"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1672 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Boyd", "McCollum"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T20:59:38+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T20:21:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94f5b504-447c-423b-b06a-50acee442189"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "5fe099cfeede854ec6dbf327cc9df4a5f9e50fca74a958ec5e8808a686823d37"
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 1672 (2025) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO CREATE A MORE EFFICIENT SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION IN ARKANSAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 800** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=800.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1672-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1672-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1672** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1672.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. Boyd — primary (person)
- McCollum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-04T20:59:38+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-04T23:34:29+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`
- **2025-03-31T13:40:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-31T13:40:58+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:11:26+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-03T19:12:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T13:39:56+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-07T13:39:58+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-07T16:24:25+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-08T19:42:54+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T03:32:00+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-09T03:32:08+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T18:16:56+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14T17:54:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:54:35+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-14T19:15:20+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-14T19:15:24+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-15T16:07:38+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-17T20:21:40+00:00** Notification that HB1672 is now Act 800 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94f5b504-447c-423b-b06a-50acee442189`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).