---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ENROLLMENT IN AN ACADEMIC COURSE AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR AN OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL OR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENT."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ENROLLMENT IN AN ACADEMIC COURSE AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR AN OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL OR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1419"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1419 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowery"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5135b750-95e0-4207-8623-2a9b68c968a3"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "43de79fe9acdbe0c3741954a6e02bf4681ae8d09bee5f93a552f138caf8f61c1"
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 1419 (2019) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ENROLLMENT IN AN ACADEMIC COURSE AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL OR AN OPEN-ENROLLMENT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL OR HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENT.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Document?type=pdf&chamber=&source=Amendments&bill=HB1419-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1419** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1419.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **55–27** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lowery — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** 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`
- **2019-02-18** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-02-18** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-02-26** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Received from the House.
- **2019-02-28** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2019-03-07** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2019-03-07** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-03-08** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-03-12** Notification that HB1419 is now Act 430 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5135b750-95e0-4207-8623-2a9b68c968a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).