---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS."
description: "TO CREATE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1393"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1393 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Pearce"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-09T18:42:04+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-17T17:21:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69ad3993-2d5a-41e7-b78b-e59e44310745"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "72ee0530735a9161f0d2035def62b5b889b68d2d478fc1f4ae510030d77e9d0c"
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 1393 (2023) — TO CREATE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2F&file=290.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2023%2F2023R)
2. **HB 1393** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2023/2023R/Bills/HB1393.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **89–1** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Pearce — primary (person)
- Cavenaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Dalby — cosponsor (person)
- Duffield — cosponsor (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- J. Mayberry — cosponsor (person)
- J. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Jean — cosponsor (person)
- Joey Carr — cosponsor (person)
- K. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- M. Berry — cosponsor (person)
- M. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Painter — cosponsor (person)
- Puryear — cosponsor (person)
- Schulz — cosponsor (person)
- Steimel — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wardlaw — cosponsor (person)
- Wooldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-09T18:42:04+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2023-02-09T22:34:43+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`
- **2023-02-23T16:24:38+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-27T19:55:40+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-27T21:55:38+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2023-02-27T21:55:46+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08T19:41:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-13T20:44:04+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-13T20:44:09+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2023-03-13T22:04:25+00:00** Returned From the Senate as passed.
- **2023-03-13T22:04:26+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2023-03-14T13:30:17+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2023-03-17T17:21:26+00:00** Notification that HB1393 is now Act 290 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69ad3993-2d5a-41e7-b78b-e59e44310745`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).