---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REMOVE RACIAL AND GENDER QUOTAS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP FOR CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COUNCILS, AND COMMISSIONS."
description: "TO REMOVE RACIAL AND GENDER QUOTAS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP FOR CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COUNCILS, AND COMMISSIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1365"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1365 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Brown"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-31T19:39:43+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-21T16:33:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fae1eaa3-6eb3-496b-b87f-1cf68f1165df"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "da7dfeca3968427c6eb6e95ab97b20d6cc99fabfc1cc982807c9054f0cd2f285"
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 1365 (2025) — TO REMOVE RACIAL AND GENDER QUOTAS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERSHIP FOR CERTAIN BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COUNCILS, AND COMMISSIONS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 938** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=938.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1365-H1.pdf)
3. **HB 1365** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1365.pdf)

## Sponsors

- K. Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31T19:39:43+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-03T23:25:02+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T23:24:16+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T20:31:27+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T23:20:36+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-05T23:20:45+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T18:39:01+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13T18:49:42+00:00** Returned to the House as requested.
- **2025-03-13T19:35:03+00:00** Returned from the Senate as requested.
- **2025-03-19T19:22:52+00:00** The vote by which HB1365 Passed was expunged.
- **2025-04-01T13:54:12+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-04-01T13:54:14+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-01T15:35:58+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-04-01T18:56:28+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T00:55:32+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03T22:01:44+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-04T00:07:05+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-04-04T00:07:12+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T18:49:48+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15T19:43:51+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T19:43:59+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-04-15T21:26:55+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-15T21:26:59+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T13:43:03+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-21T16:33:55+00:00** Notification that HB1365 is now Act 938 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fae1eaa3-6eb3-496b-b87f-1cf68f1165df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).