---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO CLASSIFY CERTAIN STUDENTS AS IN-STATE FOR PURPOSES OF TUITION AND FEES AT A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO CLASSIFY CERTAIN STUDENTS AS IN-STATE FOR PURPOSES OF TUITION AND FEES AT A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1684"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1684 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Douglas"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-05"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57db34bb-c129-4b53-a798-4fb5bd3fad13"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "e6690082d996c5c68bd3f4aa5ef346a4e91268b6d2768b25ed23bcafc0ed9ef6"
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 1684 (2019) — TO ALLOW A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO CLASSIFY CERTAIN STUDENTS AS IN-STATE FOR PURPOSES OF TUITION AND FEES AT A STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

## 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=HB1684-H1&ddBienniumSession=2019%2F2019R)
2. **HB 1684** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/HB1684.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **75–11** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in. — **62–19** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **18–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Douglas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** 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`
- **2019-03-14** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2019-03-18** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-18** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-03-19** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-19** Received from the House.
- **2019-03-19** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Rules suspended.
- **2019-04-02** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2019-04-02** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2019-04-02** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2019-04-03** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-03** Returned To the House as passed as amended.
- **2019-04-03** Returned From Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to the Committee on EDUCATION COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-05** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2019-04-05** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2019-04-08** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2019-04-10** Notification that HB1684 is now Act 844 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57db34bb-c129-4b53-a798-4fb5bd3fad13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).