---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO ENSURE ARKANSAS STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT BY QUALIFIED TEACHERS."
description: "TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO ENSURE ARKANSAS STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT BY QUALIFIED TEACHERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1496"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1496 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrews", "J. Dotson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-17T17:59:47+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-18T18:48:31+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2eaecaa0-6c51-411b-a0fb-ea670410192a"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "7929cd0d10fbdb66562f27d82b7f0ea8ed840ee5219a8d579d11f3f37e4cafee"
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 1496 (2025) — TO AMEND PROVISIONS OF THE ARKANSAS CODE TO ENSURE ARKANSAS STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT BY QUALIFIED TEACHERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 304** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=304.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1496** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1496.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Andrews — primary (person)
- J. Dotson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17T17:59:47+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-17T23:21:30+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`
- **2025-03-04T18:31:36+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T21:02:09+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T23:21:57+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-05T23:22:05+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T18:42:24+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13T20:30:33+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13T20:30:44+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-13T22:08:41+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-13T22:08:44+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-14T13:12:46+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-18T18:48:31+00:00** Notification that HB1496 is now Act 304 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2eaecaa0-6c51-411b-a0fb-ea670410192a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).