---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEE TO BE RELEASED FROM HIS OR HER CONTRACT BY A CERTAIN DATE UPON HIS OR HER WRITTEN REQUEST; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
description: "TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEE TO BE RELEASED FROM HIS OR HER CONTRACT BY A CERTAIN DATE UPON HIS OR HER WRITTEN REQUEST; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1236"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1236 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Davis", "Joey Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-27T17:57:49+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-13T19:33:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f102f17a-ebf5-4047-8e4b-b829c8e6722c"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "a99c0d55e939c72d1be039c0b63b217d1d75a61eeeb0068b9b5e0f1184d183a6"
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 1236 (2025) — TO ALLOW A PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEE TO BE RELEASED FROM HIS OR HER CONTRACT BY A CERTAIN DATE UPON HIS OR HER WRITTEN REQUEST; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 53** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=53.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1236-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1236** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1236.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Davis — primary (person)
- Joey Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27T17:57:49+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-27T23:47:47+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`
- **2025-02-03T14:31:26+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-02-03T14:31:28+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03T16:09:03+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-02-04T19:29:53+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T19:51:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T19:51:53+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-05T22:14:04+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-02-05T22:14:32+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T19:41:39+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11T20:11:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11T20:11:55+00:00** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2025-02-11T20:12:03+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:10:20+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-02-11T21:10:23+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-02-11T21:10:40+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-02-13T19:33:15+00:00** Notification that HB1236 is now Act 53 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f102f17a-ebf5-4047-8e4b-b829c8e6722c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).