---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE."
description: "TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1597"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1597 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Clark", "Dalby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-26T15:30:40+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-03T18:16:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baea3feb-f3d2-4b7d-b936-2a020de6819b"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d8f6e55d5e6f416ef96a8f8ebb1c2954642285badc62552ded38c70352760e44"
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 1597 (2025) — TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 456** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=456.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FHB1597-S1.pdf)
3. **HB 1597** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1597.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Clark — primary (person)
- Dalby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-26T15:30:40+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-02-26T23:33:25+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T18:30:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T20:52:34+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T23:25:03+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-05T23:25:10+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T18:39:52+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it Do Pass as amended, Amendment # 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13T18:57:39+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-13T18:57:49+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-13T20:51:10+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-18T20:10:52+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T20:11:06+00:00** Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
- **2025-03-18T21:09:53+00:00** Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
- **2025-03-18T21:10:00+00:00** Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T19:55:58+00:00** Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1 `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31T18:49:49+00:00** Senate amendment # 1 read and concurred in.
- **2025-03-31T18:49:51+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-31T18:49:54+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-04-03T18:16:10+00:00** Notification that HB1597 is now Act 456 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/baea3feb-f3d2-4b7d-b936-2a020de6819b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).