---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021."
description: "TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1545"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1545 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. English", "K. Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-20T17:12:11+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-10T21:25:31+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db177bff-1319-479a-bb41-d667b37e8be6"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "9f387275579e162728491c9723ac85319441a3fb1399cb01969053458ac3f08a"
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 1545 (2025) — TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS MILITARY CHILD SCHOOL TRANSITIONS ACT OF 2021.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 501** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=501.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1545-H1.pdf)
3. **Amendment H2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1545-H2.pdf)
4. **HB 1545** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1545.pdf)

## Sponsors

- J. English — primary (person)
- K. Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20T17:12:11+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-20T22:29:34+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`
- **2025-03-10T13:37:18+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-10T13:37:23+00:00** Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-10T17:45:31+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T18:39:10+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 2 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-19T13:30:57+00:00** Placed on second reading for the purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-19T13:30:59+00:00** Amendment No. 2 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-19T21:16:30+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-20T19:01:17+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T23:19:40+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-20T23:19:49+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T18:19:15+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07T22:35:49+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-07T22:35:52+00:00** Returned to the House as Passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:24:35+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-08T01:24:39+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-04-08T15:20:00+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-10T21:25:31+00:00** Notification that HB1545 is now Act 501 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db177bff-1319-479a-bb41-d667b37e8be6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).