---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO CREATE THE TEACHER AND STUDENT PROTECTION ACT OF 2025."
description: "TO CREATE THE TEACHER AND STUDENT PROTECTION ACT OF 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1062"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1062 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dees", "R. Scott Richardson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-11T20:19:51+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T22:09:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8530b1d5-311e-4bf1-9d45-3b179bb15edc"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "66fc2e42399448ec1ec2b849deb2c69bdbba2d94a5cfcd1ae3e13d491da8cec7"
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 1062 (2025) — TO CREATE THE TEACHER AND STUDENT PROTECTION ACT OF 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 565** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=565.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1062-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1062-H2.pdf)
4. **Amendment H3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1062-H3.pdf)
5. **Amendment H4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1062-H4.pdf)
6. **Amendment H5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1062-H5.pdf)
7. **HB 1062** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1062.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dees — primary (person)
- R. Scott Richardson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-11T20:19:51+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-13T21:11:43+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`
- **2025-01-15T14:36:13+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-01-15T14:36:15+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-15T19:38:28+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-03T14:31:35+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-03T14:31:38+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03T16:10:37+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-18T14:36:12+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-18T14:36:15+00:00** Amendment No. 3 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-18T16:29:38+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-26T14:32:30+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-26T14:32:33+00:00** Amendment No. 4 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-26T16:59:09+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T22:34:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 5 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31T13:37:55+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-31T13:37:58+00:00** Amendment No. 5 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:10:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T19:46:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T00:17:06+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-02T00:17:19+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:15:45+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09T00:20:25+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T00:20:35+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:20:36+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-09T16:20:43+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-09T16:20:49+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-14T22:09:03+00:00** Notification that HB1062 is now Act 565 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8530b1d5-311e-4bf1-9d45-3b179bb15edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).