---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS BETTER CHANCE PROGRAM ACT."
description: "TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS BETTER CHANCE PROGRAM ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1733"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1733 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caldwell", "Joey Carr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-11T15:41:56+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:26:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8df958e-1fbd-4626-a729-f44b20703972"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "653fcc27e6f5133b19fb9000fbe5cfb4d75b935effb86706ac9899e88193d3b0"
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 (2025) — TO AMEND VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE CONCERNING THE ARKANSAS BETTER CHANCE PROGRAM ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 504** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=504.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1733-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1733-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1733** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1733.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Caldwell — primary (person)
- Joey Carr — primary (person)
- Tosh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-11T15:41:56+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-11T21:58:03+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`
- **2025-03-12T13:38:03+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-12T13:38:05+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-12T18:21:33+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T22:34:00+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31T13:37:47+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-31T13:37:49+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:10:23+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T19:41:00+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T00:23:35+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:23:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:20:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T22:38:26+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T22:38:29+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:27:34+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:27:38+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T15:30:42+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T21:26:04+00:00** Notification that HB1733 is now Act 504 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8df958e-1fbd-4626-a729-f44b20703972`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).