---
type: "Bill"
title: "TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN STATE-SUPPORTED POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS."
description: "TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN STATE-SUPPORTED POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1689"
citation: "Arkansas HB 1689 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Wallace", "M. Shepherd"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-05T19:37:58+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-20T15:46:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a93249e3-0e81-441e-8a7a-73759c38c328"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "fea72281024a02ae54a74e413df053d287259fc41fdab18a792cacf87e5666e4"
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 1689 (2025) — TO REQUIRE A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS; AND TO REQUIRE CERTAIN STATE-SUPPORTED POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS TO GRANT ACCESS TO ITS FACILITIES TO MILITARY RECRUITERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **Act 355** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=355.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **HB 1689** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/HB1689.pdf)

## Sponsors

- D. Wallace — primary (person)
- M. Shepherd — primary (person)
- Eubanks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-05T19:37:58+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-05T23:21:49+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`
- **2025-03-11T16:17:12+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T19:03:35+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-12T21:38:26+00:00** Received from the House.
- **2025-03-12T21:38:35+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T18:39:57+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18T20:41:20+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T20:41:27+00:00** Returned to the House as passed.
- **2025-03-18T21:07:45+00:00** Returned from the Senate as passed.
- **2025-03-18T21:07:47+00:00** TO BE ENROLLED
- **2025-03-19T13:59:04+00:00** Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
- **2025-03-20T15:46:09+00:00** Notification that HB1689 is now Act 355 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a93249e3-0e81-441e-8a7a-73759c38c328`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).